India has provided over 361 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine to other countries so far: MEA
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Around 361.94 lakh doses of anti-Covid vials have so far been sent to various countries from India, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.
While 67.5 lakh doses of the total vaccines have been supplied as grant assistance, 294.44 lakh on commercial basis, according to MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava.
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