Hope different international locations will comply with your instance: WHO Chief thanks PM Modi for supporting vaccine fairness

Image Source : PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses public assembly in Coimbatore. 
World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has thanked PM Modi for supporting vaccine fairness, amid the pandemic.

Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, WHO chief stated, “Your commitment to COVAX & sharing COVID-19 vaccine doses is helping 60 plus countries start vaccinating their health workers & other priority groups. Hope other countries will follow your example.”

On Wednesday, Serum Institute of India (SII) stated it has initiated provides of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield to COVAX, the worldwide initiative to make sure speedy and equitable entry to the vaccine for all international locations.

“It is a historic moment for all of us as COVAX receives its first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by SII, COVISHIELD. We are delighted to see the combined efforts of everyone result in saving the lives of millions,” SII CEO Adar Poonawalla stated in a tweet.

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SII will proceed to be on the forefront of combating the pandemic with inexpensive and immunogenic vaccines, he added.

India on Wednesday dispatched the primary batch of six lakh coronavirus vaccine doses to the African nation of Ghana underneath the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) in collaboration with the UNICEF, which goals to cowl 92 international locations underneath the initiative.

(With inputs from PTI)

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