New York: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has invoked Lord Hanuman as he thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to fight the deadly coronavirus infection in his country, one of the worst-hit nations by the pandemic.
India, one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, on Friday began commercial exports and sent two million doses of domestically manufactured Covishield vaccine to Brazil.
Tweeting an image of Hindu god Hanuman carrying a mountain of coronavirus vaccine to Brazil, Bolsonaro thanked India for helping his country with the jabs.
– Namaskar, Primeiro Ministro @narendramodi
– O Brasil sente-se honrado em ter um grande parceiro para superar um obstáculo global. Obrigado por nos auxiliar com as exportações de vacinas da Índia para o Brasil.
– Dhanyavaad! धनयवाद pic.twitter.com/OalUTnB5p8
— Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) January 22, 2021
“Namaskar, Prime Minister @narendramodi. Brazil is honoured to have a great partner to overcome a global obstacle. Thank you for helping us with vaccine exports from India to Brazil. Dhanyavaad!” read the post accompanying the picture.
The image was a reference to a tale in the Ramayana epic wherein Lord Hanuman lifted the entire Govardhan mountain to deliver ‘Sanjeevni booti’, a magical life-saving herb, to Lanka to save Lord Ram’s brother Lakshman, who was wounded in a war.
Brazil’s Health Ministry has said the vaccine from India landed in Sao Paulo on Friday before being flown to Rio de Janeiro, where state-run Fiocruz Institute is based, the Associated Press reported.
Fiocruz has an agreement to produce and distribute the vaccine, the report said.
In April, India also provided the Latin American country raw materials for the production of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
Brazil, has the second highest number of coronavirus cases in the world next only to the United States. The total number of cases are over 8.7 million and 2,14,000 deaths related to COVID-19 have been recorded.
India has undertaken contractual supplies of coronavirus vaccines to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil, Morocco, Bangladesh and Myanmar, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in New Delhi on Friday.
India is one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, and an increasing number of countries have already approached it for procuring the coronavirus vaccines.
India has already rolled out a massive coronavirus vaccination drive under which two vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin, are being administered to frontline health workers across the country.
While Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield is being manufactured by the Serum Institute, and Covaxin is being produced by Bharat Biotech.
India had earlier supplied hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir and paracetamol tablets, as well as diagnostic kits, ventilators, masks, gloves and other medical supplies to a large number of countries to help them deal with the pandemic.
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Look at the contrast. Brazil PM thanks referring to an incident from our Puranas. Our
Indian journalist writes Hanuman lifted Govardhan. Pls correct the mistake.
He said same thing with hoh
Lord hanuman did not lift govardhan, please do correct the mistake he lifted dronagiri. Govardhan was lifted by lord shri krishna.
Sanjeevani herb was on Dronagiri mountain, which Hanuman uprooted, not Govardhan mountain as brought out in this article! Please get your mythology facts correct. Govardhan mountain was uprooted by Krishna to save the people of Vrindavan from the torrential rains poured down by an angry Indra