India sends 5 lakh (500,000) COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan
New Delhi, Jan 1 (PTI) In the second tranche of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban, India on Saturday supplied 5,00,000 doses of the Covaxin vaccine to the war-torn country and announced that an equal number of jabs would be sent in the coming weeks.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the consignment of vaccine doses was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul.
It said another batch of additional 5,00,000 doses of the vaccine would be supplied to Afghanistan in the coming weeks.