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India’s initiative to provide COVID-19 vaccines to other countries, including free doses, seems to not have gone down well with China, which is aiming for international goodwill by shipping its jabs after facing global outrage over its handling of the viral outbreak that started from Wuhan late in 2019. The latest twist in "vaccine diplomacy’ comes amid reports of a Chinese state-backed hacking group launching a cyberattack on IT systems of Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, and Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, which provided its first dose to inoculate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The real intent of the...
