India’s Vaccine Diplomacy Wins Friends in the Caribbean
- Dominican Republic, Barbados, Dominica get Indian-made shots
- India provided 22.9 million doses in ‘Vaccine Friendship’ plan
A worker monitors vials of Covishield on the production line at the Serum Institute of India plant in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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India is making tens of thousands of free Covid-19 shots available to Caribbean countries left behind by rich nations in the race to procure vaccines.
The Indian-made shots offer poorer countries an alternative to Chinese vaccines, which Beijing has been pushing across the region.