India delivers 5,00,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Afghanistan, says MEA

Centre on Sunday sent 5,00,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Afghanistan as part of New Delhi's vaccine diplomacy. 'Me in India' vaccine doses arrived in Afghanistan from Mumbai earlier last morning. Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar expressed his "profound gratitude" to government and people of India for vaccine doses that will help country fight COVID-19 pandemic. "A clear sign of generosity, commitment & strong partnership indeed," Haneef said. 

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India delivers vaccine doses to 15 nations

This comes after External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar said India has so far supplied COVID-19 vaccine doses to at least 15 countries, while ar 25 nations remain in queue. MEA Jaishankar said that India is dealing with three s of countries - low-income nations, price-sensitive nations, and ones that directly negotiate with pharmaceutical companies. New Delhi is currently supplying doses that are being manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII), which is producing AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.  

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Last week, External Affairs Ministry anunced that India is planning to give 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to United Nations as part of COVAX initiative. India also said it will gift 10 million doses to Africa. India has gifted over 55 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines to its neighbouring countries so far, including Banglesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelles, and Mauritius. India is also planning to commercially sell COVID-19 vaccines to Saudi Arabia, Cana, and or countries, while it has alrey engd in deals with Brazil, and Morocco. 

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While supplying COVID-19 vaccine doses to or countries, India is also running its own iculation drive since January 16. India has approved two COVID-19 vaccines - AstraZeneca's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. India, which is running one of largest vaccination programmes in world, has vaccinated more than 5.7 million people to date, primarily health care professionals and or frontline essential workers. 

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