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India’s vaccine diplomacy continues, now COVID-19 vaccines dispatched to Bahrain, Sri Lanka
India continues to provide COVID-19 vaccines to its neighbouring countries and other nations that have reached out for assistance in these trying times. Presently, India dispatched COVID-19 vaccines to Bahrain and Sri Lanka.
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s Vaccine Maitri initiative, Sri Lanka will be provided with a consignment of 50,400 doses of vaccines while Bahrain will receive 10,800 doses.
Bahrain had approved Covishield to support its efforts to vaccinate at risk members from developing COVID-19 complications.
The Covishield vaccine consignment was loaded at Mumbai airport which departed at 7:55 for Manama while another consignment left for Colombo at 9 am.
Earlier, India has sent the vaccines to several countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
The vaccine, Oxford-Astrazeneca’s Covishield, has been manufactured by Serum Institute of India and was approved for use by the government’s drug regulatory board recently.
