By Dr KK Aggarwal
During the pandemic, India proved to the whole world that it has the best medical facilities as compared to most developed countries. As far as communicable disease management is concerned, India is right on top. It even reached out to the whole world in supplying Covid-19 medicines such as hydroxychloroquine.
Not only medicines, India even supplied diagnostic kits and medical equipment, ranging from masks, gloves and ventilators, to other countries. Many were given as gifts to partner nations. India has also conducted virtual camps in training healthcare workers, especially on how to conduct the tests. It has worked day and night to develop a vaccine to eradicate this pandemic.
Welcome move, but India has not beaten us in vaccine diplomacy: China
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Updated: Saturday, February 27, 2021, 16:40 [IST]
Beijing, Feb 27: China on Friday welcomed India supplying more Covid-19 vaccines to a number of countries, playing down reports that New Delhi has beaten Beijing in its vaccine diplomacy around the world.
Responding to a question on a report that India has beaten China in its own game of vaccine diplomacy, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin during a media briefing said, We welcome that and hope to see more countries taking actions to provide vaccines to the world, especially developing countries, to help with the global response.
India has sent consignments of anti-coronavirus vaccine doses as gifts to countries such as Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Oman, Afghanistan, Barbados and Dominica. Countries which received vaccines on commercial basis include Brazil, Mor
TRT Digital Debates To Host Talk On Vaccine Diplomacy
Discussion to be broadcast live on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook. TRT World Forum s Digital Debates series will continue on Wednesday with a discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine diplomacy.
The session features Irshad Ali Shaikh, WHO Turkey health security team head; Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at University of Exeter Medical School; and Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, deputy director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
It will be hosted by Talip Kucukcan, a former member of Turkey s parliament and currently professor of sociology at Marmara University and a senior fellow at the TRT World Research Center.
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