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By Sanjeev Miglani

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has approved the shipment of COVID-19 vaccine to Cambodia
and plans to supply Mongolia and Pacific Island states, officials said on Sunday, as supplies
arrived in Afghanistan - all part of the country’s widening vaccine diplomacy.

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Seeking to steal a march over rival Asian giant China, which has also promised to deliver shots,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has been giving nearby countries millions of
doses of the locally made AstraZeneca PLC vaccine, even as its domestic immunisation
programme has just begun.

Modi is using India’s strength as the world’s biggest maker of vaccines for various diseases to
improve regional ties and push back against China’s political and economic dominance.

New Delhi has approved 100,000 doses for Cambodia on an urgent basis following a request to
Modi from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, India’s envoy to Phnom Penh said.

Cambodia is an important ally of China, which is expected to provide a million doses of

COVID-19 vaccines, mainly developed by state firm Sinopharm.

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“The supply has been assured through the Serum Institute of India despite innumerable
competing requests from partner countries and our commitment to our domestic population,”
said Ambassador Devyani Khobragade.

India has given doses to Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives to help them
get started with frontline workers as part of its Vaccine Friendship initiative.

On Sunday it sent 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Afghanistan, the first to arrive
in the war-ravaged country, which is still waiting for emergency approval from the World
Health Organization to administer them.

India has invested millions of dollars in Afghanistan over the years in an expansive effort seen
as pushing back against arch rival Pakistan’s influence in the country. “The vaccines are being
provided on a grant basis,” a government source said.

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Consignments will be sent to Mongolia, Caribbean countries and Pacific Island states in the
coming weeks, he said. “External supplies are an ongoing process, depending on availability
and domestic requirement,” he said.

India, which has the world’s second-highest caseload of coronavirus, plans to immunise 300
million people by August. It vaccinated about 3 million healthcare workers in the first two
weeks of the campaign that began on Jan. 16 and will need to step up the pace to meet the
summer target.

Reporting by Sanjeev Miglani; Editing by William Mallard

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