Key Points:
- “Glad to see your affection towards India. 🙂 We believe that the world is our family and want to play our role in strengthening the fight against COVID-19,” PM Modi tweeted in response to Pietersen’s tweet.
- England’s Former International cricketer Kevin Pietersen praised India, terming it as a ‘beloved country’ for providing the Covid-19 vaccines to South Africa, the country where the cricketer was born.
England’s Former International cricketer Kevin Pietersen praised India, terming it as a ‘beloved country’ for providing the Covid-19 vaccines to South Africa. After his tweet was read by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he responded saying that he was quite glad to see the former England cricketer’s affection towards India.
“Glad to see your affection towards India. 🙂 We believe that the world is our family and want to play our role in strengthening the fight against COVID-19,” PM Modi tweeted in response to Pietersen’s tweet.
Glad to see your affection towards India. 🙂
We believe that the world is our family and want to play our role in strengthening the fight against COVID-19. https://t.co/zwpB3CNxLG
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 3, 2021
“Indian generosity and kindness grows more and more every single day. The beloved country!” Pietersen had tweeted while retweeting the External Affairs Minister of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar who tweeted the picture of Made in India vaccines in Johannesburg.
Indian generosity and kindness grows more and more every single day.
The beloved country! 🙏🏽— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) February 2, 2021
While the vaccination process in the country is in full swing, India has also started to help other countries with its vaccines.
India has been approved of 2 vaccines for use that are Covaxin made by Bharat Biotech and Covishield made by Oxford in a partnership with Serum Institute of India. Ever since the vaccines have been produced, India has supplied them to countries like Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Brazil and Nepal.
The rapid production of Covid-19 vaccines in India has been hailed by many global leaders.
At present, the vaccines are being given to the frontline workers in India, including healthcare workers, sanitisation workers, etc.
