Kathmandu, Jan. 26 -- That India is the world's largest producer of vaccines has become a tool for its diplomacy in the region at a time when its relationships with neighbours have not been at their best.

With Nepal, it has a border row but that has taken a backseat after it received a million doses of the coronavirus vaccine in a grant last week. Nepal will begin immunising frontline health workers on Wednesday.

But it is not just Nepal that the South Asian giant has been providing vaccines to.

According to the India's Ministry of External Affairs since January 20, it has already shipped Covid-19 vaccines also to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Myanmar and has received orders from several other countries.

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