Covid vaccine export from India began with a maiden long-haul journey to Bhutan followed by the Maldives on Wednesday. The Oxford university-AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine left Serum Institute of India, Pune, on Tuesday night by road before being dispatched to Paro, Bhutan, in an Indian Air Force aircraft, according to an Airports...
Mohamed Nasheed, Maldives Speaker of People's Majlis (parliament) tweeted, "Today, an Air India plane will land in Male'' with 1,00,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine - a gift from India. For the Maldives, it's the beginning of the end of this terrible virus. During the tsunami, ''88 coups, water crisis or corona pandemic, India has been our first responder and dependable friend".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the Maldives in June 2019 rightly said ''Neighbourhood First is our priority; in the Neighbourhood Maldives is a priority''.
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