{"id":114243,"date":"2021-06-23T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=114243"},"modified":"2021-06-23T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T06:22:57","slug":"china-surpasses-india-in-vaccine-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-surpasses-india-in-vaccine-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"China Surpasses India in Vaccine Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Synopsis:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0China has surpassed India in vaccine delivery to other countries. India had an opportunity\u00a0to make diplomatic gains, however, it lost that to fulfil its domestic needs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Introduction<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">China has surpassed India in delivering more covid-19 shots worldwide. It is\u00a0despite the fact that\u00a0India is the world\u2019s top vaccine producer.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As per UNICEF, China has donated a total of 22.37 million doses across the world in the past six months. It delivered vaccines to a total of 84 countries, mostly in Africa, Latin\u00a0America\u00a0and Eastern Europe.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In Africa,\u00a0nearly 37%\u00a0of the vaccines supplied are through bilateral deals by Chinese companies.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Whereas\u00a0Pune-based SII donated 8.8 million doses to 48 countries in the past six months.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">How China surpassed India?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"96\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"111\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Firstly, Export ban:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0After 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nd<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0wave, India stopped exports of vaccines so that it is available in abundance for domestic use. India banned exports of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca developed and Serum Institute of India (SII)-manufactured\u00a0Covishield\u00a0vaccine. This prompted several countries to turn to China.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"96\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"112\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Secondly Awaited emergency approval:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Bharat Biotech, the other vaccine manufacturer from India, is still awaiting emergency approval from the World Health Organization, hindering its ability to scale up exports.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SII was committed to delivering up to 50 million doses to 64 countries under COVAX by April. However, after\u00a0India\u2019s decision to open vaccination for all those above the age of 18, GAVI notified the\u00a0potential delays.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW184525866 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184525866 BCX0\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW184525866 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/epaper.livemint.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=226c827149f&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW184525866 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW184525866 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Livemint<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"EOP SCXW184525866 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0China has surpassed India in vaccine delivery to other countries. India had an opportunity\u00a0to make diplomatic gains, however, it lost that to fulfil its domestic needs.\u00a0 Introduction\u00a0 China has surpassed India in delivering more covid-19 shots worldwide. It is\u00a0despite the fact that\u00a0India is the world\u2019s top vaccine producer.\u00a0 As per UNICEF, China has donated a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-surpasses-india-in-vaccine-delivery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China Surpasses India in Vaccine Delivery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,9],"tags":[2981,212,8136,8134,8135],"class_list":["post-114243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-public","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-health-and-related-issue","tag-vaccine-diplomacy","tag-vaccine-maitree","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704794731},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}