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The editors of this page would be well-advised to read this twitter thread by Sam Jawed. In particular:
Basically 84% of the exports were commercial deals and contractual commitments of SII to GAVI / AstraZeneca. Remaining 16% were grants by the government. The #VaccineMaitri umbrella covered all types of vaccine exports. 10/n
In the light of this, the lead sentence claiming a grand "humanitarian gesture" is a tad bit overblown. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 00:08, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
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What is ironic in the midst of all the VaccineMaitri brouhaha is that the current ban on exports is blocking even orders which had bee placed and already paid for.
Bangladesh had contracted for 30 million (300 lakh) doses of Covishield at 5 million (50 lakh) doses a month for six months, but only 7 million of the paid shipments actually arrived between January and February. [1]
So India, which never bothered to order doses in time, is now monopolising all the production while other countries are getting starved.
Nepal is reeling under the same pandemic that India is going through, but India won't send it vaccines. Even 65 year olds who had received their first does in February don't have a second dose now to round off their immunisation. This is hardly any kind of maitri. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 00:36, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
But setting perceptions aside, the truth is that despite India having exported over 64 million doses last year at great cost to its own citizens, the world is not toasting the Indian PM for global leadership in jabs. Instead, there is deep anxiety worldwide not only about India’s inability to meet its international commitments, but also about its actions accelerating the second wave, which could set back global efforts to resume normal life. [2]
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This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
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The editors of this page would be well-advised to read this twitter thread by Sam Jawed. In particular:
Basically 84% of the exports were commercial deals and contractual commitments of SII to GAVI / AstraZeneca. Remaining 16% were grants by the government. The #VaccineMaitri umbrella covered all types of vaccine exports. 10/n
In the light of this, the lead sentence claiming a grand "humanitarian gesture" is a tad bit overblown. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 00:08, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
References
What is ironic in the midst of all the VaccineMaitri brouhaha is that the current ban on exports is blocking even orders which had bee placed and already paid for.
Bangladesh had contracted for 30 million (300 lakh) doses of Covishield at 5 million (50 lakh) doses a month for six months, but only 7 million of the paid shipments actually arrived between January and February. [1]
So India, which never bothered to order doses in time, is now monopolising all the production while other countries are getting starved.
Nepal is reeling under the same pandemic that India is going through, but India won't send it vaccines. Even 65 year olds who had received their first does in February don't have a second dose now to round off their immunisation. This is hardly any kind of maitri. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 00:36, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
But setting perceptions aside, the truth is that despite India having exported over 64 million doses last year at great cost to its own citizens, the world is not toasting the Indian PM for global leadership in jabs. Instead, there is deep anxiety worldwide not only about India’s inability to meet its international commitments, but also about its actions accelerating the second wave, which could set back global efforts to resume normal life. [2]
References