"Our hearts go out to the Indian people in the midst of the horrific Covid-19 outbreak," Blinken said in a tweet on Saturday night.
His statement came as anti-US and anti-western sentiment exploded across social media with growing criticism directed at the Biden-Harris administration for sitting on stockpiles of unused vaccines and jealously guarding patents.
Our hearts go out to the Indian people in the midst of the horrific COVID-19 outbreak. We are working closely with… https://t.co/dcQ32UGI2z— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) 1619318517000
Even American civil society, lawmakers, and businesses joined the denunciation of Washington over its "Americans First" approach even as countries like India are reeling under Covid crisis.