Canada Thanked India For Covid-19 Vaccine

March 4, Ottawa (Canada) : On Wednesday (local time), Canada thanked India for sending them COVID-19 vaccines, on 4th March 500,000 does reach, a week after the AstraZeneca vaccine was approved.

"The AZ/CoviShield vaccine is now in Canada. The first tranche of 500,000 doses arrived this morning from Serum Institute Of India with 1.5 million more doses to follow. Thank you to all whose hard work made this happen. We look forward to future collaboration." Anita Anand, MP for Oakville and Minister Of Public Services and Procurement, said in a tweet.

 

Earlier she also said that this week another 944,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines will reach Canada, of which 500,000 doses are of AstraZeneca and  444,600 doses of Pfizer.

"This is incredible work - AstraZeneca was approved this past Friday and thanks to Minister Anita, her team and the many others involved, 5 days later we have received 500,000 doses with 1.5 million more on the way! We're now set to receive more than 6.5M doses by the end of March." While lauding the efforts made by Anand and her team to procure the coronavirus vaccines, Jennifer O'Connell, MP for Pickering-Uxbridge, said.

Earlier this month Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and Modi assured that India will do its best to support Canada's COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

"If the world managed to conquer COVID-19, it would be significantly because of India's tremendous pharmaceutical capacity, and Prime Minister Modi's leadership in sharing this capacity with the world." Expressing his appreciation, the Canadian Prime Minister said. Prime Minister Modi also thanked PM Trudeau for his sentiments.

"Dear Hon'ble PM @JustinTrudeau, I thank you for your warm words towards India and its vaccine industry. As we await regulatory approvals from Canada, I assure you, @SerumInstIndia will fly out #COVISHIELD to Canada in less than a month, I'm on it!" Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute Of India said.

 

Author: Sweta Mishra

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