United Nations thanks India for providing 2 lakh COVID vaccine doses for peacekeepers

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United Nations on Saturday thanked India for providing 200,000 COVID vaccine doses for UN Peacekeepers and appreciated efforts to strengthen COVAX Facility for guaranteeing equitable entry to vaccines for all. “India has been a global leader in pandemic response efforts. Appreciate efforts to strengthen COVAX Facility for ensuring equitable access to vaccines,” TS Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to UN, quoted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as saying.
Guterres additionally thanked External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for providing 200,000 COVID vaccine doses for UN Peacekeepers.
India has equipped a complete of 229.7 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccine to the worldwide neighborhood as of final week, in accordance with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
India on January 16 started its mammoth coronavirus vaccine rollout by administering 207,229 photographs on the primary day with the assistance of lots of of 1000’s of well being employees who have been educated and assisted by the UN companies.
The Central authorities has launched an software named CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) to watch the complete vaccination course of.

Two vaccines–Covaxin and Covishield– have acquired Emergency Use Authorisation (EAU) after going by established security and immunogenicity in a well-prescribed regulatory course of and these will likely be administered throughout the vaccination drive.
Addressing a weekly briefing, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava stated India plans to reward vaccine doses to Oman, CARICOM international locations, Nicaragua, Pacific Island states.
He additional stated that New Delhi plans to produce 1 crore or 10 million vaccine doses to Africa and 10 lakh to United Nations well being employees underneath GAVI’s (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) COVAX facility.
(With ANI inputs)

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