India sends more medical supplies to Afghanistan
The Hindu
MHA said another batch of additional 5,00,000 doses of the vaccine would be supplied to Afghanistan in the coming weeks.
India began the new year by handing over half a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan on Saturday. The consignment is part of a million strong vaccine supply that will be completed within the coming weeks, the Ministry of External Affairs has announced. The delivery will soon evolve into one of the largest ever humanitarian assistance from India to Afghanistan consisting of wheat and other medicines to be organised in coordination with UN agencies.
“Government of India is committed to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghan people consisting of food grains, one million doses of COVID vaccine and essential life-saving drugs,” announced a press release issued by the Ministry of External Affairs. Saturday’s delivery is the second such assistance that India has provided to the Taliban-ruled country in less than a month.
which began the supply of humanitarian items to Afghanistan. Ministry of External Affairs announced that Kabul will receive half a million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Apart from India, Pakistan, Iran, UAE, China, Russia and Qatar are among those that are supply medicines and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. India supplied COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan in February 2021 but the latest delivery is the first time since the Taliban's arrival in August that India has sent vaccines to Kabul.