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Under it's vaccine maitri initiative, India has already sent Covid-19 vaccines to at least 65 countries
India will send at least 45 million vaccine doses to Pakistan as part of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, or GAVI. The vaccine agreed upon is Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine that is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. The first batch is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan in the middle of March.
All charges of the vaccine, from manufacture to delivery, have been waived off by GAVI as part of the initiative to provide free vaccines to poor countries. While the first batch of AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine is expected to land in Pakistan in mid-March, the remaining doses will arrive in waves within June.