‘Vaccine Maitri’: Made In India Vaccines Reach South Africa And Algeria

India's "Vaccine Maitri" programme continues to gain further momentum, with the nation now delivering supplies of made in India COVID-19 vaccines to South Africa and Algeria, reports Times of India.

The nation with the largest vaccine making capacity in the world, India, has been approached by an increasing number of nations to procure supplies to immunise their respective populations against the infectious disease which has been on a prowl across the globe and has led to several lakhs of deaths worldwide.

India has supplied vaccines to a host of nations across the globe starting with the nations in its neighbourhood. The batch of nations to have received made in India vaccines include Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Brazil and Nepal among several others.

India is supplying vaccines to other nations while simultaneously carrying out vaccinations at home, under which two COVID-19 vaccines -Covishield and Covaxin, are being administered to frontline healthcare workers across the States and Union Territories (UTs).

Of these, Covaxin is indigenously developed by Hyderabad based Bharat Biotech in a collaboration with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the Pune based National Institute of Virology.