“New York’s thousands of Indian-Americans are filled with anger and helplessness as they witness the unnecessary tragedy back in the country that shaped each of us as a child,” said Harpreet Singh Toor, co-founder and president of South Asians for Global Empowerment. Toor said it is the right time to call for a full-scale effort to donate vaccines, Covid-19 test kits, swabs, ventilators, pulse oximeters, and every other type of relief possible to India.

The US has delivered six plane-loads of emergency medical supplies to India in fighting against a Covid-19 wave, according to a release by the US Agency for International Development on May 6. As a devastating wave of infections caught India off guard, more than 10 countries have offered to help India with aid. The Red Cross Society of China recently donated oxygen concentrators and ventilators to India with delivery on May 17.

Amid the critical situation, India’s overall coronavirus caseload and death toll as of Saturday stood at 2,43,72,907 and 2,66,207, respectively. In the past 23 days, India’s daily Covid tally has plateaued over the three-lakh-mark, with more than 3,000 casualties for 17 days.