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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
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23731. China starts smear campaign against India’s vaccine diplomacy
- India’s vaccine diplomacy puts China on the back foot in South Asia, Chinese government mouthpiece Global Times has sought to mount a smear campaign to try and discredit the Indian initiative.
- India has already gifted the Covishield vaccine manufactured locally by Serum Institute of India to all Saarc countries except Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Employees pack boxes containing vials of Covid-19 vaccine at the Serum Institute of India, Pune, India. Serum Institute of India is the world's largest maker of vaccines and has been contracted to manufacture a billion doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine. (AP)
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23732. India to donate vaccines against Covid-19 to Sri Lanka
- India that has vaccinated over a million and half of its own people against Covid-19 will reportedly provide Sri Lanka next week half a million Covishield vaccines free of charge to fight the disease.
- Sri Lanka will thus become the eighth country to receive donations of this type from India, noted the Daily News and Analysis newspaper on Sunday
- As part of the government's declared 'neighborhood first' policy, India sent a shipment of the vaccine to seven other nations in the region, including Bhutan (150,000 doses), Maldives (100,000), Nepal (1 million), Bangladesh (2 million), Myanmar (1.5 million), Seychelles (50,000) and Mauritius (100,000).
23733. India Launches 'Neighborly Vaccine Diplomacy'
- In an unusual diplomatic initiative, India has donated millions of doses of the British-developed AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine being produced in the country to neighboring South Asian nations.
- The “vaccine diplomacy” aims to raise New Delhi’s global profile and push back against China, which has been expanding its influence in South Asia, analysts say. As the world’s largest vaccine producer, India is set to be at the forefront of supplying affordable shots against COVID-19 to low- and middle-income countries. An Indian company, the Serum Institute of India, has joined with AstraZeneca to make the vaccine.
- Shipments of the vaccine landed in recent days in Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Mauritius and Seychelles, just days after India launched its own nationwide inoculation program.
23734. 50 lakh Oxford-AstraZeneca doses coming Monday from India
- First consignment of 50 lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine purchased by Bangladesh from the Serum Institute of India Pvt Limited will arrive on Monday, health minister Zahid Maleque said Sunday.
- ‘India has already provided us 2 million doses. Five million doses will come as per our contract. The rest of the 25 million doses will come in phases,’ he told the media at the Secretariat.
- India provided 2 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as ‘gift’ to Bangladesh.
23735. India sends millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to neighbouring countries; US, Brazil, WHO lauds the efforts
- India has been sending out the vaccination developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and is manufactured on a large scale by Serum Institute of India.
- On January 20 this year, India started handing out free vaccine doses to Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan and in just three days, more than 3.2 million doses have been sent to these four countries.
- Donating more vaccine vials to Seychelles, Mauritius, Myanmar and agreements with Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are also in place.
23736. US 'applauds' India for gifting Covid-19 vaccine to several countries
- Two million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from India are unloaded at Galeao Air Base in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (REUTERS)
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated that India's vaccine production and delivery capacity will be used for the benefit of all humanity to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The United States on Friday "applauded" India for gifting COVID-19 vaccines to several countries including the Maldives, Bhutan and Bangladesh, saying New Delhi is a "true friend" which is using its pharma industry to help the global community.
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23737. Sri Lanka to receive Covid-19 vaccines from India next week: President
- Sri Lankan municipal health workers take a swab sample from a man to test for Covid-19 in Colombo (AP)
- Front-line health workers, the Army and the police and the most vulnerable elderly will be given the vaccine as a priority. The president's comments came as the health authorities conducted three dry runs of the vaccination process
- Sri Lanka will receive Covid-19 vaccines free from India next week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Saturday, a day after the country approved emergency use of Oxford AstraZeneca's Covishield vaccine.
23738. Barbados PM requests PM Modi for access to made-in-India Astra vaccine
- In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Barbados PM has asked access to 200,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine being manufactured in India.
- "We are in urgent need of your assistance and support at this very difficult time. Barbados is very much in need of access to vaccines to provide the necessary immunization coverage for a large segment of our population of 287,000," the letter said.
- Large consignments of Covishield vaccine doses were flown in special Indian aircraft to Seychelles, Mauritius and Myanmar on Friday. Contractual supplies are also being undertaken to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Morocco, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
23739. `Namaskar`: Brazil's Bolsonaro thanks 'great partner' India, PM Modi for Covid-19 vaccines
- The biggest nation of South America has been facing vaccine shortage and was awaiting the arrival of two million doses of the coronavirus vaccines from India.
- Brazil's President Jair M Bolsonaro on Friday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supplying Covid-19 vaccines to Brazil
- The biggest nation of South America has been facing vaccine shortage and was awaiting the arrival of two million doses of the coronavirus vaccines from India, though experts feel the shipment from India would not be sufficient to compensate for the paucity of vaccines in Brazil.
23740. एक ड्राइवर ने 18 साल लगाकर उगाए 5000 पेड़ और बेकार चीज़ों से बना दिया बच्चों का पार्क
- राजकोट के पास बसे एक छोटे से गांव मजेठी में रहने वाले जगमलभाई ने अपने खुद के खर्च से एक सुंदर सा Children’s park तैयार किया है। सालों पहले उन्होंने मात्र दो पौधे लगाने से शुरुआत की थी, वहीं आज यहां 5000 पेड़-पौधे लगे हैं जिसमें से ज्यादातर पेड़ फलदार हैं।
- राजकोट जिला स्थित उपलेटा तालुका के मजेठी गांव में रहने वाले जगमलभाई डांगर की। जगमलभाई सालों से पर्यावरण के क्षेत्र में काम कर रहे हैं। वह ‘वेस्ट को बेस्ट’ में बदलने, गाय आधारित जैविक खेती और बागवानी जैसे कामों में भी माहिर हैं।
- उन्होंने अपने खेत के पास दो-तीन पेड़ लगाए थे। इसके बाद तो, उन्होंने पीछे मुड़कर नहीं देखा। पिछले 18 साल से वह लगातार पौधारोपण कर रहे हैं। उनकी मेहनत का ही परिणाम है कि आज उनके खेत में पांच से छह हजार पेड़ लगे हुए हैं। जिसमें करीब 200 पेड़ 20 से 25 फीट की ऊंचाई तक पहुंच गए हैं। ये सभी सौराष्ट्र के आसपास प्राकृतिक रूप से उगने वाले पेड़ हैं, जिनमें आम, सेतुर, शीशम, आवंला शामिल हैं। इसके अलावा, उन्होंने विशेष रूप से, इलाके में विलुप्त हो चुके वनस्पतियों को उगाने पर बहुत जोर दिया है।