New Delhi: World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has thanked PM Modi for supporting vaccine equity, amid the pandemic.
Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, WHO chief said, “Your commitment to COVAX & sharing COVID-19 vaccine doses is helping 60 plus countries start vaccinating their health workers and other priority groups. Hope other countries will follow your example.”
India has so far provided 361.91 lakh doses of anti-covid-19 vaccine under grants-in-aid and commercial supply to various countries of the world, showing solidarity in the war against Corona virus. External Affairs Ministry spokesman Anurag Shrivastava told the media on Thursday that 67.5 lakh doses of covid-19 vaccine have been made available to various countries as subsidy while 294.44 lakh doses have been made available under the commercial supply.
There are currently two vaccines in India, which have already received approval for emergency use. Vaccination campaign is also going on in India after the government approved emergency use. The two vaccines the government has approved include an indigenous vaccine covaxine. This vaccine has been developed by Bharat Biotech and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
While the second vaccine is Covishield. Covishield has been developed by Oxford University-AstraZeneca and the Serum Institute is producing it in India. Along with the production of both these vaccines in India, they are also being sent abroad.
Earlier WHO had praised India for its efforts to stop the spread of corono virus disease. The WHO stated that there has been a steady decline in the number of infections in the country. For more than three months, cases of covid-19 in India have been steadily decreasing, WHO India representative Dr Roderico H. Ofrin told news agency ANI.
He said that given the magnitude of the population, this is something that the Indian government should be very proud of.
“We have seen India’s hard work, discipline and enthusiasm in response to the vaccination campaign. It has been very successful,” said Ofrin. Approximately six million vaccines were administered in 22 days.