Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar informed that the India-manufactured COVID vaccines have reached Ethiopia.

"Delivering on a historical connect. Made in India vaccines arrive in Ethiopia," the EAM said in a tweet.

India, under the Vaccine Maitri initiative, has so far supplied 461.66 lakh (46 million) doses of COVID vaccines across the globe.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India has delivered vaccines to 47 countries till now.

Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that India cannot remain safe from Covid-19 if the disease continues to dominate the rest of the world.

The minister asserted that the countries need to curb the tendency of "vaccine nationalism" if they want to eradicate the disease entirely. "India or any other nation cannot remain safe from coronavirus and Covid-19 disease if the rest of the world continues to be at risk of it, which is why it is essential to curb COVID-19 vaccine nationalism," he stated.

"If the poor and underdeveloped countries continue to harbour the novel coronavirus, we shall not be able to ensure safety for all. Fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine is the biggest need of the hour," he stated.

Vardhan also drew a similarity of the current situation with the epidemic of polio. "Children in the entire world need to be vaccinated against poliomyelitis only because Pakistan and Afghanistan failed to eradicate this disease from their respective countries," he said.

"Similarly, India cannot be safe from coronavirus if the rest of the world continues to remain unsafe from it," he stressed.