Four million health workers received the first jabs within 18 days of the launch, the fastest rollout the world has seen. The UN Secretary General said in January that India’s vaccine production capacity is ‘one of the best assets that the world has today’. Reflecting a commitment to “neighbourhood first” and vaccine internationalism, India is providing over twenty million vaccine doses to more than a dozen neighbours and partner countries, helping them kick-start their own vaccine programmes. India’s Prime Minister told the World Economic Forum that more Indian vaccines would soon be available to the world. This allows most less-developed countries to painlessly run their domestic vaccination programmes.

Source: National Post February 05, 2021 23:03 UTC