India delivered 70.7 mn doses of Covid vaccines to 95 nations till Nov 22: Jitendra Singh
BRAND-NEW DELHI: India has provided around 70.70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 95 nations till November 22 and out of these, 12.7 million doses were provided to 47 countries by the federal government, Union minister Jitendra Singh stated on Friday. He stated the remaining 58 million were supplied by the Serum Institute of India under its industrial and COVAX obligations.
Minister for Science and Technology Singh, who chaired the 9th BRICS Science and Technology Ministers satisfy held on Friday, called for working towards rightful place for BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in the Worldwide Innovation Index, and this he stated can be achieved through further strengthening the cooperation in the field of Science, Innovation and Development.
During his interventions in different sessions, Singh informed that India under the “Vaccine Maitri” effort is providing COVID-19 vaccines to countries around the world.
“As of November 22, 2021, India had provided around 70.70 million dosages of vaccines to 95 countries and out of these, 12.7 million doses were provided to 47 countries by the government. The remaining 58 million were supplied by the Serum Institute of India under its commercial and COVAX responsibilities,” he added.
Singh stated BRICS nations need to come together and innovate cost-effective, budget-friendly, accessible, sustainable and scalable scientific services, as they face lots of similar and distinct difficulties.
He said BRICS is home to 41 percent of the world population with an increasing share of this including youth and added that the possible shown by young researchers should get its rightful place in the global arena.
Zhang Guangjun, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, China; Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande, Minister of College, Science and Innovation, South Africa; Marcos Pontes, Minister of Science, Innovation and Development, Brazil and Natalya Bocharova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, Russia and senior officials from BRICS nations participated in the fulfill and embraced the program.
Acknowledging that India has actually gotten full cooperation from all BRICS partners during its Chairship, Singh highlighted that 2021 is a crucial landmark year in BRICS Cooperation as the grouping completed 15 years.
Singh said that the Covid pandemic supplied an opportunity to comprehend that international cooperation was the only method forward in minimizing such worldwide obstacles and throughout this period, we broadened intra-BRICS cooperation by enhancing preparedness and response to the pandemic.
Released at Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:15:58 -0600
