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India sends 5 lakh doses of Covaxin to Afghanistan as humanitarian aid

Other News Materials 2 January 2022 11:55 (UTC +04:00)

India on Saturday sent the second tranche of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August of last year. This tranche included 5 lakh doses of Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 jab - Covaxin, Trend reports citing India Today.

The humanitarian aid was flown to Kabul by a flight of Iran's Mahan air.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Arindam Bagchi, said in a tweet that the Covid-19 vaccines were handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul.

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Afghanistan's envoy to India, Farid Mamundzay, said in a tweet: "Another batch of additional 500,000 doses would be supplied in coming weeks. Thank you India for providing Afghan people life saving gift on the first day of 2022! I hope this year would be peaceful & prosperous for all Afghans."

"Another batch of additional 500,000 doses would be supplied in coming weeks," said a press statement by the MEA.

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