India on Sunday gifted Afghanistan 500,000 doses of made-in-India COVIDD-19 vaccines. The vaccines will be used to vaccinate Afghan Security forces & health workers.
The vaccine contingent reached on an Air India plane at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International airport and was handed over by India’s Cd’A Raghuram S to the country’s acting minister of Public Health Waheed Majroh. India is the first country to send COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan.
The Indian mission in a statement said, “India is the first responder to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan”.
Last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, India gifted 20 MT of COVID vaccines to Afghanistan. It also sent 75000 MT of wheat to the country as humanitarian aid via Chabahar port to prevent any shortage of food amid the pandemic.
With the notable exception of Pakistan due to obvious reasons, all of India’s neighbors have been gifted COVID-19 vaccines by New Delhi. In fact, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and…