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Maldives-Mauritius: Indian Foreign Minister expands outreach in Indian Ocean Region
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Jaishankar’s visit is testimony to the importance that India attaches to its close and friendly relations with the Maldives and Mauritius, according to an official statement. The two sides will sign a comprehensive trade pact in near future.
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India is the largest development cooperation partner of Mauritius with focus on people oriented projects.
Days after hosting Indian Ocean Region Defence Ministers meet in Bangalore External affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar will undertake visits to Maldives and Mauritius between Friday and Monday as part of India’s sustained outreach in the Indian Ocean Region notwithstanding pandemic.
Daily Trust reports that Kano will be getting the highest of the first 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines to be procured by the federal government while Lagos will get 3,131; Katsina, 2,361; Kaduna, 2,074; Bauchi, 1,900; Oyo, 1,848; Rivers, 1,766; Jigawa, 1,712 and Nasarawa will get the lowest with 661.
He said even among the health workers, those at isolation centres and others at the front line in the fight against the virus would be targeted first and after the health workers have been covered adults over 50years and those with co-morbidities would be targeted.
Dr. Tijjani explained that the federal government is responsible for procuring, transportation and distribution of the vaccines and it has appointed a technical working group for these, adding that the vaccines will be coming at almost zero cost implication for the state government barring a need for counterpart funding as is with other vaccines.