Afghanistan received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine from India yesterday, the first to arrive in the country.<br />''  <br />''The vaccines were produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII), which is producing the AstraZenecca/Oxford University vaccine for mid- and low-income countries.<br />'' <br />''Ghulam Dastagir Nazari, head of the immunisation program at the health ministry said  , health workers, security force members, teachers and government employees would receive the vaccine first, .<br />''The Afghan government has already trained 1,000 people to deliver the vaccine out of the 3,000 that will be needed to carry out its vaccination drive.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Afghanistan has had 55,335 COVID-19 cases and 2,410 deaths from the disease, according to the health ministry.</span><br />