External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had announced in February that India will gift 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines for UN peacekeepers on March 27.
“Keeping in mind the UN Peacekeepers who operate in such difficult circumstances, we would like to announce today a gift of 200,000 doses for them,” Jaishankar had said while addressing the UN Security Council open debate on the implementation of resolution 2532 (2020) on the cessation of hostilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quoting the Bhagvad Gita, Jaishankar had said “Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.”
The 200,000 portions basically imply that it will be feasible to direct the necessary twofold dosages of COVID-19 immunizations to all UN peacekeepers across missions. As per UN Peacekeeping, as of January 31, 2021 an aggregate of 85,782 faculty are serving in 12 peacekeeping operations across the world led by the Department of Peace Operations. An total of 121 countries are contributing uniformed personnel to the UN peacekeeping missions. India is customarily among the biggest troop contributing nations to peacekeeping missions.
Sources said the 200,000 portions of the AstraZeneca immunization will leave Mumbai through Qatar Airways on March 27. The shipment will go to Copenhagen, where it will be securely put away in a package, re-packaged and immediately circulated to peacekeeping missions for the peacekeepers. The Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covidshield is being produced by Pune-based Serum Institute. The SII has teamed up with Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for making the vaccine.
Covaxin is the indigenously developed vaccine by pharma company Bharat Biotech.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had said that he is “extremely grateful” for the gift of 200,000 COVID19 vaccine doses for UN peacekeepers announced by India, the world’s biggest drugmaker.
Under India’s ‘Vaccine Maitri’ initiative, which translates into Vaccine Friendship, the country has been providing vaccines to nations across the world – from India’s immediate neighbours to countries in Latin America and Africa – and is a significant source of supply to the COVAX facility.
More than 58 million Made in India coronavirus vaccine doses have reached about 70 countries in the recent weeks.
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