WHO chief Tedros lauds India, PM Modi for help to world COVID-19 response

New Delhi: World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday expressed gratitude to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for continued help to the worldwide COVID-19 response in opposition to the pandemic.
“Thank you, India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for your continued support to the global COVID-19 response. Only if we #ACTogether, including sharing of knowledge, can we stop this virus and save lives and livelihoods,” Tedros tweeted.

Thank you #India and Prime Minister @narendramodi on your continued help to the worldwide #COVID19 response. Only if we #ACTogether, together with sharing of information, can we cease this virus and save lives and livelihoods.
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) January 23, 2021

In a bid to combat the pandemic, India has equipped COVID-19 vaccines to its neighbors together with Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.
Large consignments of Covishield vaccine doses have been flown in particular Indian plane to Seychelles, Mauritius, and Myanmar on Friday. Contractual provides are additionally being undertaken to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Morocco, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
The United States on Friday “applauded” India for gifting COVID-19 vaccines to a number of nations together with the Maldives, Bhutan, and Bangladesh, saying New Delhi is a “true friend” which is utilizing its pharma trade to assist the worldwide group.

Taking to Twitter, the State SCA (the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in US State Department) mentioned: “We applaud India’s role in global health, sharing millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine in South Asia. India’s free shipments of the vaccine began with Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Nepal and will extend to others. India’s a true friend using its pharma to help the global community.”
Earlier at the moment, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had introduced {that a} flight carrying two million doses of India made coronavirus vaccines landed in Brazil.
“Trust the Pharmacy of the World. Made in India vaccines arrive in Brazil,” Jaishankar tweeted.

India dispatched two million doses of Covishield vaccines to Brazil on Friday. Covishield has been developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and is being manufactured by Serum Institute of India.
Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by means of the Embassy in New Delhi, had made preparations with India and SII for the transportation of the COVID-19 vaccines, following up on a letter from President Jair Bolsonaro to Prime Minister Narendra Modi dated January 8.