The Ministry of Foreign Relations announced it has received a note from India’s government on the donation of 200,000 hydroxychloroquine (HDQ) tablets to the country, in response to a request for cooperation made a few days ago. In a press release, Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado says he thanked his colleague S. Jaishankar for the donation. The drug is being used experimentally for the treatment of Covid-19. The drug has not yet arrived to the country.
The Dominican Republic and Brazil are the only Latin American countries on a restricted list of 13 countries to which India has authorized the export of hydroxychloroquine. “We are grateful for the solidarity of the Republic of India, a friendly country with which we have excellent bilateral relations,” Vargas said. Vargas said Dominican Ambassador Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, who is the dean of the diplomatic corps accredited in India, informed him of the nation and the coordination underway to ship the drug to the Dominican Republic. He also thanked Dammu Ravi and Gloria Gangte, in charge of Indian affairs related to Covid-19 and the Department of Latin America and the Caribbean, respectively, as well as Madhu Sethi, Indian Ambassador to the Dominican Republic for their assistance.
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13 April 2020