London: Britain said on Tuesday that it is currently emphasizing its domestic preference for Covid-19 Vaccine and that it will have additional supplements to provide to needy countries like India at this stage.
In the context of the dreaded second wave of pandemic in India, a spokesman for the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the process is constantly being reviewed and the country will send a support package of 495 oxygen concentrators, 120 ventilators, etc. In order to meet the supply shortage in India.
The first batch of one hundred ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators reached Delhi in the early hours of Tuesday. The spokesman said that in February we had made a commitment that additional doses from the supply to the UK would be given to the ‘Covacs buying pool’ and to the needy countries. He said that right now we are emphasizing on the domestic front and we do not have additional doses available.
