: Covid-19: Donald Trump says Modi was ‘great’, backs India’s position on export of hydroxychloroquine #IndiaNEWS United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he supported Prime Minister

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Covid-19: Donald Trump says Modi was ‘great’, backs India’s position on export of hydroxychloroquine #IndiaNEWS
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s earlier decision to ban the export of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. The drug is believed by many to be effective in the treatment of the novel coronavirus. This came a day after Trump had warned India that it may face retaliation if it turns down American requests to supply hydroxychloroquine. Hours after that, the Ministry of External Affairs rescinded the earlier ban and said India will export paracetamol and hydroxychloroquine in appropriate quantities to “nations who have been particularly badly affected� by the coronavirus pandemic. The restrictions had been in place for all of two days. “We are in a great shape from the medicine standpoint,� Trump told Fox News in an interview. “By the way, the hydroxychloroquine...we have millions of doses that I bought for the country. We have more than 29 million doses. I spoke to Prime Minister Modi, a lot of it [hydroxychloroquine] comes out of India. I asked him if it would be okay to release it? He was great. He was really good.�The president then said India stopped export of the drug as they wanted it for themselves. “But there is a lot of good things coming from that,�...Read more

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