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US defends restrictions on Export of COVID-19 Vaccine raw materials says “Americans First”
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US defends restrictions on Export of COVID-19 Vaccine raw materials says “Americans First”

COVID-US defends restrictions on the export of key raw materials for the manufacture of the COVID-19 vaccine, which threatened to slow India's vaccination campaign, a senior State Department official has said that the Biden administration's first obligation is to protect the American people needs. https://twitter.com/RaquelC91238869/status/1384910112188510208?s=20 US President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act on February 5 US President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act on 5 February to restrict the export of raw materials of the COVID-19 vaccine to boost domestic vaccine production. Foreign Minister S Jaishankar raised the matter with Secretary of State Antony Blinken when he spoke on 19 April, and it was also taken up by Indian envoy Taranjit Singh San...