India supplied 56 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccines beneath grants help to a quantity of nations whilst one hundred lakh doses had been sent beneath industrial supplies, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated on Thursday.
MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava stated Indian vaccines are scheduled to attain the Caribbean nations, Pacific Island states, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Mongolia, in the coming weeks.
“We have so far supplied vaccines to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, the UAE, Brazil, Morocco, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Algeria, Kuwait and South Africa,” he stated at a media briefing.
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“Supplies made under grant amount to 56 lakh doses and commercial supplies amount to over 100 lakh doses,” he added.
Srivastava stated external supplies of vaccines are an ongoing approach, based on availability and domestic needs.
“In the coming weeks, Indian vaccines are scheduled to reach CARICOM countries (the Caribbean), Pacific Island States, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Mongolia etc,” he stated.
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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is a grouping of 20 island nations which are household to about 16 million individuals.
In a important announcement, India on January 19 stated it will send COVID-19 vaccines beneath grant help to various nations, like Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius.
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India is one of the world’s greatest drugmakers, and an escalating quantity of nations have currently approached it for procuring the coronavirus vaccines.