Congressman Gregory Meeks, Chairman of the highly effective House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday mentioned: “Congratulations to India on reaching this important milestone in the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. As a global leader in pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing, India’s success will help the world defeat this pandemic,” he mentioned.
“Great to see that India has reached 1 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccination. What an achievement!” Senator Steve Daines from Montana mentioned. Congresswoman Robin Kelly mentioned India has now administered a couple of billion doses of the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine. “This is a promising milestone. Vaccination rates across the world are an important factor in our global recovery from this pandemic,” she mentioned.
The New York Times mentioned the billion-dose milestone represented a turnaround in a vaccination drive that received off to a gradual begin, as India’s governing occasion prioritised elections and took up a lax perspective in tackling the virus, persevering with to carry crowded political rallies and permitting non secular festivals to happen at the same time as instances surged.
Wishes additionally poured in for India from the World Health Organisation and the management of Israel, Bhutan and Sri Lanka together with different nations, after it scripted historical past on Thursday with the cumulative Covid-19 vaccine doses administered within the nation surpassing the 100-crore milestone.
Vaccine Maitri is a humanitarian initiative undertaken by the Indian authorities to offer Covid-19 vaccines to nations all over the world. The authorities began offering vaccines from January 20. India has to date delivered round 66.three million doses of vaccines to 95 nations, together with Canada, the UK, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Nepal, South Africa, Ukraine and Bahrain.