Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro in his address to the nation on Thursday, 9 April, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for helping Brazil with hydroxychroloquine. He said, “As an outcome of my direct conversation with Indian PM, we'll receive, raw materials to continue our production of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19,” ANI reported.

Days after Bolsonaro and Modi had a telephonic conversation over the coronavirus pandemic, Bolsonaro wrote a letter to Modi seeking help over supplies of the medicinal drug hydroxychloroquine, but with a reference to one of India’s oldest epics – Ramayana, News 18 reported.