At the forefront of the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, India has supplied more vaccines to people around the world than inoculating its own citizens, according to New Delhi’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, K Nagaraj Naidu.

Addressing the General Assembly, he said, “India will not only be vaccinating 300 million of its own frontline workers over the next six months, but in the process has also supplied vaccines to over 70 nations. In fact, as of today we have supplied more vaccines globally than have vaccinated our own people.” He added that 2,00,000 doses of vaccine that India is gifting to UN Peacekeepers will be arriving in Denmark.