Two Indian flights carried two million doses of Covishield to Dhaka and one million doses to Kathmandu, and people familiar with matter said on condition of anonymity that supplies would be sent to Seychelles (50,000 doses), Mauritius (100,000 doses) and Myanmar (1.5 million doses) on Friday.
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A week after Nepal requested for COVID-19 vaccines from India, the country has got 1 million doses of made in India vaccines.
A plane carrying Serum Institute of India manufactured oxford AstraZeneca vaccine COVISHIELD reached Kathmandu.
New Delhi: A week after Nepal requested for COVID-19 vaccines from India, the country has got 1 million doses of made in India vaccines. Nepal s foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali had requested the vaccines during the last Friday s India-Nepal 6th joint commission meeting in Delhi.
A plane carrying Serum Institute of India manufactured O
xford AstraZeneca vaccine COVISHIELD reached Kathmandu s Tribhuvan International Airport. Nepal s Health minister Hridayesh Tripathi, Minister of State Nabaraj Rawat, Secretary Laxman Aryal and Indian envoy to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra were present at the site.
Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives have received India’s Covid-19 vaccines under grant assistance in sync with its “Neighbourhood First” policy. India is one of the world's biggest drugmakers and an increasing number of countries have already approached it for procuring the coronavirus vaccines. India has already rolled out a massive coronavirus vaccination drive under
India will give millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine to South Asian countries in the next few weeks, government sources said, drawing praise from the country’s neighbours and pushing back against China’s dominating presence in the region.
Free shipments of AstraZeneca’s vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, the world’s biggest producer of vaccines, have begun arriving in the Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Myanmar and the Seychelles are next in line to get free consignments as India uses its strength as one of the world’s biggest makers of generic drugs to build friendships.
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Vaccine diplomacy: Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan & Maldives get India’s anti-COVID-19 doses
Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives have received Indiaâs COVID-19 vaccines under grant assistance in sync with its âNeighbourhood Firstâ policy. India is one of the world s biggest drugmakers and an increasing number of countries have already approached it for procuring the coronavirus vaccines.
India has already rolled out a massive coronavirus vaccination drive under which two vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin, are being administered to frontline health workers across the country.
On Thursday, Bangladesh and Nepal received COVID-19 vaccines from India.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra handed over the vaccine consignment to Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli during a function at the Prime Minister s residence at Baluwatar.