Dominican Republic starts its vaccination campaign with Made in India Covid-19 vaccines

NEW DELHI - Dominican Republic received on Monday 15th February 20 000 doses of the Covishield vaccine produced by AstraZeneca in the Serum Institute in Pune, the world biggest vaccine maker.  

With the arrival of this first consignment, which is part of a purchase of 110 000 doses, Dominican Republic launched its vaccination campaign, starting with front-line health workers.  

Expressing its gratitude to India, Dominican Republic’s Foreign Minister, Roberto Alvarez, tweeted, “At a crucial moment, the Indian govt assists by accelerating the delivery of 20,000 doses of AZ to the dom people. Thank you”.

In addition, 30 000 doses arrived on Friday 19th February as a donation of the Government of India. Dominican Vice President, Raquel Peña, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the donation and for his support. 

With its vaccine diplomacy, India has endeavored to share its vaccine production capacity with the rest of the world.  It has to date sent doses of COVID-19 vaccine, on commercial or humanitarian basis, to its neighboring countries as well as to Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean region.