India hands over 2 million doses of Corona vaccine gift to Bangladesh

India handed over a gift of 2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Bangladesh in Dhaka on Thursday.

The vaccines were handed over by the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen and Health Minister Zahid Maleque in a function held in Dhaka. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam was also present on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion, High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami said that the gift was part of the country’s neighbourhood first policy under which India accords high priority to its relationship with Bangladesh. He said that the gift of 20 lakh doses of Covishield is in fact the biggest such dispatch by India to any of the neighboring countries.

Vikram Doraiswami said that in line with the discussions held during the virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, India has delivered the vaccines within a week of the vaccine roll-out in India.