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India: India Sends Vaccines to Afghanistan as Part of Humanitarian Assistance

NEW DELHI, 04 December 2022, (TON): India has given half a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan and pledged to send more vaccines and food grain in the coming weeks to the country, where millions face hunger.

According to the Indian Foreign Ministry “the vaccines were delivered Saturday.”

This was the second batch of humanitarian assistance from New Delhi to Kabul following the Taliban takeover in August.India sent 1.6 tons of medicines to the country last month.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement “the Government of India has committed to provide humanitarian assistance consisting of food grains, one million doses of COVID vaccine and essential life-saving drugs.”

“In coming weeks, we would be undertaking supply of wheat and the remaining medical assistance.”

India has said that it plans to ship 50,000 tons of wheat to Afghanistan and has requested Pakistan’s help in delivering it through its territory.