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The Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday requested the Indian government to provide the COVID-19 vaccine during his meeting with the new Indian ambassador

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], January 19 (ANI): The Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday requested the Indian government to provide the COVID-19 vaccine during his meeting with the new Indian ambassador to Cambodia Devyani Uttamkhobragade, reported The Phnom Penh Post. India produced its own vaccine Covishield and Covaxin that were administered at various medical centres all across India on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the pan-India rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on Saturday via video conferencing. The Indian COVID-19 vaccine drive is billed as the world's largest...

The request was made during his meeting with new Indian ambassador to Cambodia Devyani Uttamkhobragade. Uttamkhobragade congratulated Hun Sen and the Cambodian government for their excellent results to date in the campaign to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country. The prime minister in turn congratulated India on the country’s successful production of Covid-19 vaccines. He then requested that India donate Covid-19 vaccines to Cambodia to help save Cambodian lives because even with the Covid-19 vaccines recently donated by China, the Kingdom would still need millions of additional d...