India will also send 2 lakh doses to Nicaragua, 1 lakh to Barbados, 70,000 to Dominica and 1.5 lakh to Mongolia, although the dates have yet to be defined.
Egypt, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have purchased vaccines and are on the commercial export list. Aside from gifts, Mongolia (10 lakh) Nicaragua (3 lakh), Saudi Arabia (30 lakh), Myanmar and Bangladesh are among those who have contracted to purchase vaccines from India. Purchases are made commercially but require export authorization from the Indian government.
Meanwhile, around seven million Indian-made doses of AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine will be part of Pakistan’s free Covid-19 vaccination campaign starting next week under the Covax global alliance, said Sunday’s special assistant to Pakistan. health of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Dr. Faisal Sultan.
When a Pakistani special plane departed for China to search for the first batch of Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine, Dr. Sultan announced that around seven million of Covishield’s 17 million committed doses would arrive in the country in March.
“Although AstraZeneca is being prepared in India, it will come through Covax, an international alliance that has announced free vaccines for 20% of the Pakistani population. DRAP (Medicines Regulatory Authority of Pakistan) has already registered both Sinopharm and AstraZeneca, ”said Dr Sultan.
The UN Covax initiative will see India selling around 100 lakh of vaccine doses. Furthermore, the UN will buy around 4 lakh of doses for its own workers around the world.
India’s vaccination campaign is attracting attention, and the Indian ambassador to the Philippines, Shambu Kumaran, tweeted on Sunday that the Asean nation was examining the implementation of vaccines in India, pointing to local media reports there.
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