NEW DELHI -- India began supplying coronavirus vaccines to its neighboring countries on Wednesday, January 20, as the world’s largest vaccine making nation strikes a balance between maintaining enough doses to inoculate its own people and helping developing countries without the capacity to produce their own shots.
India's ambassador to Nepal, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, said Wednesday that New Delhi would supply Nepal with one million doses free of charge, with the first to arrive as early as Thursday. Indian regulators gave the nod for emergency use to two vaccines earlier this month: the AstraZeneca vaccine and another one by Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech. India kicked off its own massive vaccination drive on January 17, with a goal of inoculating 300 million of its nearly 1.4 billion people.
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