India sends 5 lakh doses of Covaxin to Afghanistan as humanitarian help

India on Saturday despatched the second tranche of humanitarian help to Afghanistan because the Taliban takeover in August of final 12 months. This tranche included 5 lakh doses of Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 jab – Covaxin.

The humanitarian help was flown to Kabul by a flight of Iran’s Mahan air.Spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Arindam Bagchi, mentioned in a tweet that the Covid-19 vaccines have been handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul.READ: Decision to flee Kabul made in ‘minutes’, says former Afghan president GhaniAfghanistan’s envoy to India, Farid Mamundzay, mentioned in a tweet: “Another batch of additional 500,000 doses would be supplied in coming weeks. Thank you India for providing Afghan people life saving gift on the first day of 2022! I hope this year would be peaceful & prosperous for all Afghans.””Another batch of additional 500,000 doses would be supplied in coming weeks,” mentioned a press assertion by the MEA.Today, India provided the following batch of humanitarian help to Afghanistan, consisting of 500,000 doses of COVID vaccine (COVAXIN). These have been handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul. Press Release https://t.co/Ti7L1BdewJ pic.twitter.com/XFpII0I8jC— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) January 1, 2022
Last 12 months, India introduced that it will ship 50,000 tonnes of wheat and medicines to Afghanistan by highway via Pakistan. India and Pakistan are nonetheless within the technique of finalising the modalities for transportation.India, in December 2021, delivered 1.6 tonnes of medical help to Afghanistan via the World Health Organization (WHO).On November 10, India hosted a regional dialogue on Afghanistan that was attended by the National Security Advisors of Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.Like a number of different nations, India too is but to recognise the Taliban as the brand new authorities in Afghanistan.