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India Sending 1 Million Covaxin Doses to Afghanistan for First Time after Taliban Takeover

Dais Newsfeed | 01/01/2022 09:37 AM | Click to read full article

India is providing 1 million doses of its indigenous Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, produced by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a top government official privy to the development told CNN-News18.

The first shipment consisting of 5 lakh doses of Covaxin has been sent by Mahan (Iran) airways and would reach Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday. 

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