NEW DELHI: A consignment containing 5,00,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines gifted by India will reach Sri Lanka on Tuesday. This gift of Covid-19 vaccines to Sri Lanka is a part of India s Vaccine Maitri initiative under which India has gifted vaccines to seven other countries in the region. The consignment, which will be containing 500,000 doses of Covishield vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), will reach Colombo. This comes days after Sri Lanka s drugs regulatory body National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) gave a go-ahead to Oxford Astrazeneca s vaccine. External affairs minister S Jaishankar visited Sri Lanka from January 5-7 upon the invitation of his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena. During the visit, Sri Lankan side requested India for urgent delivery of Covid vaccines. The supply of 5 lakh doses is a fulfilment of that request.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced the vaccine will reach the country on January 27.
India will send a gift to Sri Lanka next week in the form of Covid vaccines.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced the vaccine will reach the country on January 27.
The country will get 500,000 doses of made-in-India Covishield vaccine. With this, Sri Lanka has become the eighth country to receive such gift from India.
India began its country wide mega immunisation programme on January 16.
New Delhi has till date gifted vaccines to seven countries in the region as part of its neighbourhood first policy Bhutan (150,000) , Maldives (100,000) , Nepal (One million) , Bangladesh (2 million) , Myanmar (1.5 M), Seychelles (50,000) , and Mauritius (100,000).
Vaccine aid for neighbours
Updated Jan 21, 2021, 4:55 am IST
The only exception as of now is Pakistan
While six nations Bhutan, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles will get the Indian vaccines in the first tranche, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius will get them once necessary regulatory clearances are given. (Photo: twitter @DrSJaishankar)
India has long called itself the pharmacy of the world and has now decided to live up to the claim. By the time these lines are printed, lakhs of doses of made-in-India vaccines against the novel coronavirus would have landed in our neighbouring countries, and more will do so in the coming days. While six nations Bhutan, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles will get the Indian vaccines in the first tranche, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius will get them once “necessary regulatory clearances” are given. It is noteworthy that the Indian vaccines would be the first to arrive in most
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