New Delhi, March 27 -- India has supplied more vaccines against COVID-19 to people around the world than has vaccinated its own citizens, according to India's Deputy Permanent Representative K. Nagaraj Naidu. He told the UN General Assembly on Friday, "India will not only be vaccinating 300 million of its own frontline workers over the next six months but in the process has also supplied vaccines to over 70 nations. In fact, as of today we have supplied more vaccines globally than have vaccinated our own people."

He said that 200,000 doses of vaccine that India is gifting to UN peacekeepers will be arriving in Denmark on Saturday.

From there, the Covishield vaccines are to be repackaged and sent to peacekeepers around the world, accordi...