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50,000 doses of made-in-India 19 vaccines reach Jamaica, Jamaica thanks India

Health50,000 doses of made-in-India 19 vaccines reach Jamaica, Jamaica thanks India

The made-In-India COVID-19 Vaccines reach Jamaica and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted, “Caring for our Caribbean friends. Made in India vaccines have reached Jamaica.”

The Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness thanked India and said, “I’m extremely pleased to report that yesterday we received our first shipment of 50,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine donated by Govt of India. We express our deep appreciation to Govt & people of India for this very much-needed support.”

To date, twenty-five nations across the globe have already received the made-in India vaccines and forty-nine more countries are to be supplied with the vaccine be supplied in the upcoming days extending to Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean to Africa, South-East Asia, and the Pacific Islands.

In the early 1960s, the Government of India started to encourage the growth of pharmaceutical manufacturing by Indian companies, and with the Patents Act in 1970 under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Indian pharmaceutical companies made a powerful entry in both the Indian and global markets with their expertise in reverse-engineering new processes for manufacturing drugs at low costs which became the advantage for industry.

Now, India has become one of the largest producers of generic medicines globally and is positioned as the fourth largest exporter of generic formulations in volume and 10th largest in value.

 

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