India has emerged as an angel for the world that has been battling the Covid-19 epidemic for more than a year. India has not only succeeded in overcoming this epidemic but it is playing an effective role in bringing the world out of it. India is playing this role in two ways. Its first means has been to send India’s vaccine to other countries and the second way has been to contribute meaningfully to the World Health Organization’s Covax scheme. India has so far provided nearly 230 million doses of vaccine to 20 countries worldwide. In the coming years, India will provide more vaccine supplements to Africa and Latin American countries. The world is known as the Vaccine Diplomacy of India.
However, in the case of India’s vaccine diplomacy, it includes all the neighboring countries of India except Pakistan. Pakistan has not been included because of its actions. Also, there has been no official initiative from Pakistan to acquire the Indian vaccine. Apart from this, India has so far sent its vaccine to Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil. The Brazilian President had even tweeted a memorable tweet after getting the vaccine which showed Lord Hanuman fetching herbs. It was thanked for sending the vaccine to India. Most of these countries are economically poor and cannot afford the vaccine. These include Pakistan. Pakistan is also waiting to meet Covax.
It is worth mentioning that on 21 January, India took the initiative to carry out vaccination of Corona epidemic in other countries under vaccine friendship. These included countries that were small and poor, such as the Dominic Republic. India provided this help free of cost to such countries. It has been said very clearly by the Ministry of External Affairs of India that India will continue to help the whole world in this regard even in the coming times.
India gave the highest priority to neighbors in vaccine diplomacy and provided them with this vaccine. The Covidshield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute has reached millions of people abroad by now. On the other hand, when talking about Chinese company Sinoform, Dragon has provided it only to Pakistan and Nepal. Pakistan had to send its plane there to bring this vaccine because China refused to send the vaccine from its plane.
According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, so far Bangladesh has 20 lakh, Myanmar 10.7 lakh, Nepal 10 lakh, Bhutan one and a half lakh, Mauritius one lakh, Seychelles 50 thousand, Sri Lanka 5 lakh, Bahrain 1 lakh, Oman A dose of 1 lakh, 5 lakh has been provided to Afghanistan, 1 lakh to Barbados and 70 thousand vaccines to the Dominican Republic. Commercially, about 20 lakh to Brazil, 60 lakh to Morocco, 50 lakh to Bangladesh, 20 lakh to Myanmar, 50 thousand to Egypt, 50 thousand to Algeria, one million to South Africa, 2 lakh to Kuwait, and so on to UAE. Doses have been provided.
