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India May Give Indication on Vaccine Delivery to a Scrambling Brazil by End of the Week 21/01/2021
Workers unload a pickup van that carries Oxford-Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines which arrived from India as a gift to Bangladesh, in Dhaka, Bangladesh January 21, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
New Delhi: India is likely to decide on exporting Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine to Brazil by the end of the week, nearly ten days after the Brazilian government’s plan to send a plane to pick up 2 million doses from Mumbai turned awry.
On Wednesday, India delivered 250,000 doses of Covishield to Bhutan and Maldives, which marked the supply of Indian-manufactured COVID-19 vaccines to foreign countries. Another three million doses were sent to Bangladesh and Nepal on Thursday. These vaccines have been ‘gifted’ by India to these countries as part of a diplomatic campaign in the neighbourhood.