Barbados PM Mia Mottley expresses solidarity as India fights COVID-19

Barbados: Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing solidarity during unprecedented times of the COVID-19 crisis. “On behalf of the government and people of Barbados, I wish to extend sentiments of support and solidarity to the government and the people of India.”

PM Mottley said, “It is with a heavy heart that I write to you, having learnt of the unprecedented rise in COVID-19 cases and the number of lives which have been lost in India.”

Barbados and India enjoys a strong and enduring relationship for the past many years. In January, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley had asked PM Modi for vaccines which the Indian Government kindly accepted and delivered over 100,000 doses of Oxford Astra-Zeneca vaccines to help Barbados immunise its frontline workers.

“COVID-19, by its very nature, continues to challenge us and exhaust the financial and human resources of the government across the globe. But it is the suffering of our citizens and the loss of countless lives which are the realities which we as leaders must face,” wrote PM Mottley.

Barbados Prime Minister assured Indian Prime Minister of continued support and assistance that might be able to do so.

India has reported 329,942 new infections and 3,876 death in the last 24 hours while suffering from a major health crisis due to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, Prime Minister Dr Roosevelt Skerrit had also expressed solidarity with India in combat against the global pandemic. India is a world superpower in vaccine manufacturing as a wider global community is relying upon donations from India. The country has so far supplied over 6,63,69,800 (66.3 million) Oxford Astra-Zeneca Covishield vaccines to other countries, including Dominica and Barbados. In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis in India, several countries, including the US, Russia, Europe, Middle East and others, came forward to deliver oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders and other medical equipment.