GEORGETOWN: Guyana receives 80,000 doses of Covishield Covid-19 vaccine from India

GEORGETOWN: Guyana on Sunday received 80,000
doses of Made-in-India Covid-19 vaccines under the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ programme.

“Guyana
Prime Minister Mark Phillips and High Commissioner of India to Guyana Dr KJ
Srinivasa receive Indian gift of 80,000 doses of MadeInIndia COVISHIELD
vaccines – a testimony of India’s hand of friendship VaccineMaitri,” India
in Guyana wrote in a tweet.

In a
tweet, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar also informed that Guyana
has receives Made in India vaccines.

In a
tweet, Jaishankar wrote, “A kinship across oceans. Guyana receives Made in
India vaccines.”

The cumulative
count of Covid-19 cases in Guyana has reached 8,772. As many as 200 people have
lost their lives due to the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.

India, a
world pharmacy, is at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 and is
emerging as a key supplier of the vaccines to over 70 countries on a commercial
and humanitarian basis.