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2023

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Vaccine ____ Initiative is a initative launched by India to gift COVID-19 vaccines to neighbouring countries.
A
Mitra
B
Mitrata
C
Maitri
D
Sahyog
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The government started providing vaccines from 20 January 2021. As of 21 February 2022, India had delivered around 16.29 crore (162.9 million) doses of vaccines to 96 countries. Of these, 1.43 cror (14.3 million) doses were gifted to 98 countries by the Government of India.

Detailed explanation-2: -India supplied over 235 million total supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to 98 countries: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman. In January 2021, India launched the Vaccine Maitri (Vaccine Friendship) initiative-a major diplomatic effort to gift and supply made-in-India vaccines to low-income and developing countries globally.

Detailed explanation-3: -COVAXIN®, India’s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology (NIV).

Detailed explanation-4: -The Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream was part of COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator.

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