In four months, in the framework of the " Vaccine Maitri" (Vaccine Friendship) initiative, India exported 64.4 million doses of vaccines, including 35.7 million on a commercial basis, 18.2 million through the COVAX program and 10.4 million as donations.
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In January 2021, Narendra Modi announced that India would export its two vaccines free of cost to Mongolia, Oman, Myanmar, Philippines, Bahrain, Maldives, Mauritius, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Seychelles, as " a goodwill gesture". India became a key player of the UN-backed COVAX programme, which is supposed to provide 2 billion vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries. In January 2021, at the annual Davos meeting, Narendra Modi said: " While two India-made vaccines have already been introduced to the world, many more vaccines will be made available from India". In less than four months, the situation has completely changed. How will the second wave of Covid-19 affect India’s international position in 2021? India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, is at the center of the global vaccine diplomacy game. We ask three questions to Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, about the stakes of this critical moment. It could also affect India’s domestic and international stability. But the consequences of India’s hard-hitting second wave of coronavirus may not stop with the sanitary repercussions. Since the end of April an Indian variant of Covid-19, called B.1.617.2, has been shaking the country’s health system with more than 350,000 daily cases on average.
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