Taliban: “Interested in vaccines from Russia or other countries, the US has disregarded commitments”

The Taliban are interested in supplies of vaccines against covid from Russia or any other country, said the health minister of the interim Taliban government, Qalandar Ibad, denouncing that the United States has not respected a commitment to send vaccines. in the Doha negotiations on 9 October. “We expect to receive vaccines that China has promised us to send as humanitarian aid.” “Anything that helps fight the pandemic and strengthen the health of our citizens is of great help to us. We are interested in receiving vaccines from Russia, as well as from any other country that wants to assist us on this front,” he explained. “Three or four months ago, the epidemic situation in our country was very serious. The spread of the Indian variant was of particular concern. But since scheduled flights were suspended and borders with neighboring countries closed in mid-August, the situation has normalized and the death rate has dropped, “he added. In Afghanistan 156 thousand cases of covid have been recorded (the inhabitants are 38.9 million in all) and there have been 7,262 deaths. But WHO data are incomplete and do not take into account the situation in various provinces of the country.