200,000 Covid vaccines given by India for UN peacekeepers are already being put to use: UN spokesperson

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday said that the 200,000 Covid-19 vaccines donated by India for all UN peacekeepers are “already being put to use".

The 200,000 Covid-19 vaccines gifted by India for all UN peacekeepers are “already being put to use” and a number of these Blue Helmets have already been vaccinated, spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres has said. “The Indian Governmenthad offered us 200,000 dosesAnd a number of peacekeepers are already, as far as I know, being vaccinated,” Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, told reporters at the daily press briefing Friday in response to a question on vaccination of UN peacekeepers. 'So, on the Indian vaccines, those, which I think were AstraZeneca, those were 200,000. They’re already being put to use,” he said.