Justin Trudeau thanks India over fighting COVID, securing vaccine doses for Canadians

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday, 27th February appreciated support and partnership provided by India in fighting COVID-19 and helping secure coronavirus vaccine doses for people of Canada.

In a media briefing, Trudeau said, "This morning, Health Canada authorized  AstraZeneca Oxford COVID-19 vaccine as well as Serum Institute of India's version COVISHIELD. We w have a safe and third vaccine independently approved by health experts in Canada. This is very encouraging news, which means more people would be vaccinated soon. "

"I want to express my appreciation for support and partnership of Indian Government  in fighting COVID-19 and helping secure vaccine doses for Canadians," he added.

Canadian Prime Minister also took to Twitter and said, "We’ve secured 20 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine - and on top of that, we’ve w reached an agreement with Serum Institute of India for ar 2 million doses. Our first shipment of half a million doses is expected to arrive within weeks."

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Trudeau speaks on a call with PM Modi

Earlier this month,  Trudeau government was questioned over delay in procuring COVID-19 vaccines and Canadian opposition MPs had questioned  government if y reached out to India for vaccines, to which government had response. After Trudeau's call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi,  latter took to Twitter to assert that "India would do its best to supply COVID-19 vaccines sought by Canada"

"Expressing his appreciation, Prime Minister Trudeau said that if world mand to conquer COVID-19, it would be significant because of India's tremendous pharmaceutical capacity, and Prime Minister Modi's leadership in sharing this capacity with world.  Prime Minister thanked PM Trudeau for his sentiments," a press release from PMO read.

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