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11:31 AM Under it s vaccine maitri initiative, India has already sent Covid-19 vaccines to at least 65 countries India will send at least 45 million vaccine doses to Pakistan as part of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, or GAVI. The vaccine agreed upon is Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine that is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. The first batch is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan in the middle of March. All charges of the vaccine, from manufacture to delivery, have been waived off by GAVI as part of the initiative to provide free vaccines to poor countries. While the first batch of AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine is expected to land in Pakistan in mid-March, the remaining doses will arrive in waves within June. ....
Vaccine Diplomacy: Is India Ignoring Risks At Home For Rewards Abroad? DKODING Studio India’s Vaccine Diplomacy aims to beat China to the chase, delivering millions of free Covid-19 Vaccine doses to neighbours and developing nations of the world; in an attempt to bolster its Soft Power. On January 21, five days after beginning its Coronavirus vaccinations, India delivered its first doses to neighbouring Bangladesh and Nepal under grant assistance. Soon, consignments of Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccines (marketed as Covishield vaccines in India) were dispatched to Bhutan, Maldives, including Myanmar, Seychelles, and Mauritius, with commercial agreements in the pipeline. In February, the list of beneficiaries from India’s vaccine diplomacy added countries like Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. ....
India s vaccine diplomacy garners praise from global media Sun Online Desk 15th February, 2021 08:53:06 Around a month after India started sending indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccines to partner countries under grant assistance programme named Vaccine Maitri, the global media has offered lavish praise for India. Eric Bellman of Wall Street Journal said that India has emerged the surprise leader of the global vaccine diplomacy race. Appreciating India s outreach, he pointed out that it has exported three times more doses than it s given its own citizens and can spare even more without hurting its own rollout. Yaroslav Trofimov and Bellman have written a piece in the WSJ with a headline that reads - In Covid-19 Diplomacy, India Emerges as a Vaccine Superpower . It highlighted that India is a pharmaceutical giant that had manufactured some 60 percent of global vaccines before the pandemic. ....