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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
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23521. North Korea to receive AstraZeneca vaccines from India, reports say
- North Korea is on a list of low-income nations that are to receive shipments of COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX Facility, despite ongoing claims of "zero" cases of the novel coronavirus.
- According to the COVAX Facility on Wednesday, the Kim Jong Un regime, which has championed "self-reliance" economically, is to receive 1,992,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the first half of the year, South Korean news services Dailian and Seoul Economic Daily reported .
- The vaccines will arrive in batches. According to Seoul Economic Daily, the North is expected to receive about 35% to 40% of the shipments in the first quarter of 2021, and the remainder in the second quarter.
23522. China steps up vaccine diplomacy as competition with India heats up
- China offered to supply vaccines to COVAX even as it awaited emergency approval for its shots from the World Health Organisation (WHO). China on said it would provide 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the global COVAX initiative as it seeks to step-up its vaccine diplomacy amid projections from experts that India could become the "engine" for the distribution of the jabs to the world.
- Beijing had announced that it would supply three lakh vaccines to Sri Lanka after New Delhi dispatched five lakh doses to Colombo. China has also offered its vaccine supplies to Nepal, Maldives and Brazil, which has already received the first batch of supplies from India.
- South Africa has received one million doses of Covishield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India in Pune as India moved to use its vaccine diplomacy to shore up its global image, putting it in direct competition with China, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday.
23523. Kevin Pietersen thanks ‘beloved country’ India for sending Covid vaccines to South Africa
- Former England cricket captain was responding to External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar's tweet that India-made vaccines arrived in Johannesburg.
- Under the ‘Vaccine Maitri‘ (vaccine friendship) initiative, India has planned to export shots to neighbouring countries in order to address their shortfall. The initiative began on 20 January and India has so far provided vaccines to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles, Algeria and Mauritius.
- One million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine, produced by the Serum Institute of India, have been sent to South Africa as part of the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ initiative. India plans to send another 500,000 doses to the country later this month.
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23524. राजस्थान में बन रही 5KM लंबी हाईटेक 8 लेन ट्विन टनल, जानिए सबकुछ
- दिल्ली-मुंबई एक्सप्रेस-वे (Delhi-Mumbai Expressway) राजस्थान के 7 जिलों अलवर, भरतपुर, दौसा, सवाईमाधोपुर, टोंक, बूंदी और कोटा जिले से होकर गुजरेगा. भारतमाला प्रोजेक्ट (Bharatmala Project) के तहत बन रहे इस एक्सप्रेसवे का 104 किलोमीटर लंबा हिस्सा राजस्थान के कोटा जिले से होकर गुजरेगा
- यह एक्सप्रेसवे राजस्थान के कोटा के मुकुंदरा हिल्स टाइगर रिजर्व (Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve) से भी गुजरेगा. इस एक्सप्रेसवे के कारण टाइगर रिजर्व एरिया के जानवर परेशान ना हो, इसके लिए पहाड़ियों के नीचे से टनल बनाने का प्रोजेक्ट शुरू हो गया है. 8 लेन की यह ट्विन टनल करीब 5 किलोमीटर लंबी होगी.
- जीवों की सुरक्षा को देखते हुए पहली बार एनएचएआई एनिमल कॉरिडोर बना रहा है. टनल पर रिकॉर्ड 1200 करोड़ रुपए खर्च किए जाएंगे. इस टनल की लंबाई सामान्य टनल से तीन गुना ज्यादा होगी. टनल मुकंदरा हिल्स में 5 से 10 मीटर की गहराई में बनाई जाएगी. यह टनल टाइगर रिजर्व एरिया शुरू होने से करीब 500 मीटर से शुरू होगी और रिजर्व एरिया खत्म होने के बाद 500 मीटर तक जाएगी. माना जा रहा है कि यह राजस्थान की सबसे लंबी टनल होगी. इसमें करीब 2 हजार करोड़ रुपए खर्च होंगे. टनल का काम 2023 तक पूरा किया जाना है.
23525. 'Say thank you to India for the vaccine, Mr President' demands SA law firm
- A law firm is demanding that President Cyril Ramaphosa apologise to the nation for failing to thank the Indian government and the Serum Institute of India for the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines.
- Kirshen Naidoo and Company, which has offices in Durban, Gauteng and the Free State, said in a letter addressed to the President that it acts for “various citizens and organisations” in the country.
- Due to the Indian government and the institute’s generosity, SA has received its first batch of vaccines that are desperately needed to combat Covid-19.
23526. Confident to get more COVID-19 vaccine doses from India, says Nepal envoy
- Nepal is very grateful to the Indian government for gifting 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the country's envoy Nilamber Acharya said , adding that the Himalayan nation is "confident" of getting more doses of the vaccine.
- Nepal with a population of nearly 30 million has turned out to India for help to procure vaccines as it plans to inoculate nearly 75 per cent of its population.The Government of Nepal, on January 15, approved the use of Covishield developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) for emergency use.
- In the first phase of its inoculation drive, the Nepal government has planned to vaccinate a total of 450,000 frontline workers of various fields with two doses of Covishield vaccine to each.
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23527. Vaccine Maitri: South Africa receives 1st consignment of Made-in-India Covid-19 vaccine
- Ramaphosa also said that a further nine million doses would come from Johnson and Johnson, which has contracted Aspen, one of the major pharmaceutical companies in South Africa, to manufacture these vaccines in the country.
- “In addition to the one million Covishield doses we received today, we expect another 500,000 doses from the Serum Institute of India to arrive later in February,” he said. “We have secured 12 million doses in total from the global COVAX facility, which has indicated that it will release approximately two million doses by March.
- South Africa has secured millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses from different suppliers and expects more to come, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his televised address
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23528. Maldives' foreign minister receives made in India vaccine
- India has supplied to the Maldives 100,000 doses of CoviShield (Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine) manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India.
- Shahid shared a video in which he is being administered with the first of the two vaccine shots. His Tweet reads, "Today I received the #COVID19 vaccine. Govt of Maldives begins #COVID19 vaccination for all in #Maldives with no discrimination based on nationality.
- India launched the Vaccine Maitri initiative on January 20 to gift COVID-19 vaccines to other countries. Earlier, India supplied corona vaccines to neighbouring countries Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh under the Neighbourhood First policy.
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23529. Kuwait, Oman get Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines produced in India
- Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that 200,000 doses of the vaccine manufactured at the Serum Institute of India (SII) arrived in the country at dawn.
- On Sunday, Oman received 100,000 doses of the Oxford Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India.
- In a press statement carried by the Kuwait News Agency, assistant undersecretary at Kuwait’s drug and food control affairs Dr. Abdullah Al-Bader has said that the ministry is closely monitoring international developments concerning the vaccines, adding that the department would cooperate with various producing companies to get the jabs after ensuring their safety and efficacy.
23530. Why is India called the world’s pharmacy? Here are 160 million reasons
- In February, according to documents seen by HT, India intends to fly 60 million doses to friendly countries across the world, right from Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to Nauru, the world’s smallest island nation near Australia. In March, HT learned that India hopes to fly out nearly 80 million doses. Nearly half of the 160 million doses would be routed through Unicef.
- India rolled out its domestic Covid-19 vaccination programme on January 16 and almost simultaneously, started sending supplies to neighbouring countries and others, both as gifts and on a commercial basis.
- An The 30 countries that have formally asked India for vaccine include Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Serbia, Guyana (CARICOM), Egypt, Morocco, Maldives, Mauritius, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Iran, Brazil, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St Kitts and Nevis, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini and Kenya," a top government official said.
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