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Ghana Receives 6L Doses Of Made-in-India COVID Vaccines Under Vaccine Maitri Programme
Keeping our African commitment, wrote EAM Jaishankar after Ghana received the vaccines. Over 25 nations across the world have received Made-in-India vaccines.
In an effort to further boost its vaccine diplomacy, India has sent six lakh doses of domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines to Ghana. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar took to Twittter on February 24 and confirmed that the western African nation had already received the jabs produced by Serum Institute of India (SII) and was ready to begin its mass inoculation.
Keeping our African commitment.
He also shared photographs showing stocks of Covashield vaccines at a Ghanaian airport. All the vaccines received by Ghana are free of cost as the country received them under WHO’s COVAX programme. Co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the WHO, the Covax programme aims to ex
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