Guwahati News Desk: As a part of the donation and key partners, India on Friday started shipping COVID-19 vaccine to Myanmar, Seychelles and Mauritius.
Myanmar to receive 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, Mauritius with 1 lakh doses and 50 thousand doses to Seychelles.
The first consignment carrying 2 million doses each to Brazil and Morocco have already been shipped as reported by the Indian foreign secretary.
India also plans to supply doses to Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
Earlier this week free doses of vaccines have already been sent to Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives under India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speech in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last October said, “As the largest vaccine producing country of the world, I want to give one more assurance to the global community today, India’s vaccine production and delivery capacity will be used to help all humanity in fighting this crisis.”