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Guatemala President thanks India for providing Covishield vaccine doses
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Guatemala President thanks India for providing Covishield vaccine doses

Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei has thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing 200,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine — which is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.“Thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the generous donation of 200 thousand doses of vaccines #Covishield that will help us save lives and immunize frontline healthcare workers,” the President wrote on Twitter in Spanish.Along with the tweet, he also shared a picture with the message “! Gracias India!” and “Dhanyavaad Bharat!”“I would like to thank the government, the people of India for this gesture of donating these vaccines as they learned about the difficulties, we have gone through in obtaining vaccines from international suppliers. The government of India did not hesitate to support...
India sends 6 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Sri Lanka, Bahrain
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India sends 6 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Sri Lanka, Bahrain

Under the “Vaccine Maitri” initiative, India on Thursday sent six lakh doses of its coronavirus vaccine, ‘Covishield’, to Sri Lanka and Bahrain.After receiving the vaccines, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa tweeted: “Received 500,000 COVID-19 vaccines provided by people of India at BIA today (28). Thank you! PM Shri Narendra Modi and people of India for the generosity shown towards People of Sri Lanka at this time in need.”This comes days after Sri Lanka’s drug regulatory body — National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA)–gave a go-ahead to Oxford Astrazeneca’s vaccine.Bahrain has received 1 lakh Covishield vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) as a gift from India.“Bahrain receives Made-in-India vaccines. A testimony to our long-standing fraternal ties,” tweete...