New York, May 11 (TIWN) Anthony Fauci, the top US expert on Covid-19, has called on countries to provide India with resources to make its own vaccines or donate vaccines.

"India is the largest vaccine-producing country in the world. They've got to get their resources -- not only from within but also from without and that's the reason why other countries need to chip in to be able to get either supplies for the Indians to make their own vaccines or to get vaccines donated," he told a TV interviewer on Sunday.   

"One of the ways to do that is to have the big companies that have the capability of making vaccines to really scale up in a great way to get literally hundreds of millions of doses to be able to get to them," he said. 

He said that the "endgame" in fighting the pandemic is vaccinating everyone.  At the same time, he said that all of India should "shut down", as some states have done.  Vaccines are one of the ways of "breaking the transmission", but others "like shutting down the government" should be undertaken, Fauci said.