Billboards in Canada thank PM Modi for providing Covid vaccines

In Canada, billboards have come up in the Greater Toronto area thanking PM Modi for providing COVID-19 vaccines. Billboards with pictures of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been put up in the Greater Toronto area to thank him after India sent 5,00,000 doses of Covishield to the North American country.The billboards which have been put up in Greater Toronto, read, "Thank you India and PM Modi for providing COVID vaccines to Canada. Long live Canada-India friendship!" Earlier, on March 4th, India dispatched 5,00,000 doses of Covishield to Canada. Just last month, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had requested from his Indian counterpart Prime Minister Narendra Modi for vaccines. PM Modi had assured Trudeau that New Delhi will do its best to support Canada's vaccination efforts, just as it had done for many other countries already.Starting with the immediate neighbours, India has delivered millions of doses of Made in India vaccine to various countries around the world including Canada. In the coming weeks, the government is planning to further extend the assistance to 49 more countries in Europe, Latin America, South-east Asia, the Pacific Islands and Africa. 

The Vaccine Maitri initiative was launched by India on January 20 and under this initiative, the government is gifting the Covid-19 vaccine to various countries. The initiative has earned India praise from around the world, especially in small countries such as the Commonwealth of Dominica. The assistance comes as India is inoculating millions of people in the country as well. It is using two vaccines—Covishield manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) and developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and Covaxin developed by Hyderabad's Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Medical Council of Research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology—for the immunisation drive.