{"id":2390,"date":"2021-03-18T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=99344"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:43:12","slug":"west-indies-cricketer-andre-russell-thanks-pm-modi-for-sending-covid-19-vaccines-to-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/west-indies-cricketer-andre-russell-thanks-pm-modi-for-sending-covid-19-vaccines-to-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies Cricketer Andre Russell Thanks PM Modi For Sending COVID-19 Vaccines To Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a video posted by the official Twitter handle of the High Commission of India in Jamaica, Russell said, \u201cI just want to say a big, big, big thank you to Prime Minister Modi and the India High Commission. The vaccines are here and we are excited. I would love to see the world going back to normal. Jamaica people really appreciate it and just to show that we are more than close, India and Jamaica are now brothers. I appreciate it and stay safe over there. Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">'I want to say a big thank you to PM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@narendramodi<\/a> & <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hcikingston?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hcikingston<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> Vaccines are here & we are excited.' <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMOIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PMOIndia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>'<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#India<\/a> & <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jamaica?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jamaica<\/a> \u2013 We are more than close, we are now brothers'.<\/p>\n<p>WI Cricketer Andre Russell praises <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VaccineMaitri?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VaccineMaitri<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Russell12A?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Russell12A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrSJaishankar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrSJaishankar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LhGi5OQeED\">pic.twitter.com\/LhGi5OQeED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 India in Jamaica (@hcikingston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hcikingston\/status\/1371907327629090821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness thanked India for sending 50,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines. He tweeted saying, \u201cI am extremely pleased to report that yesterday afternoon, we received our first shipment of 50,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the Government of India. We express our deep appreciation to the Government and people of India for this very much-needed support.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am extremely pleased to report that yesterday afternoon, we received our first shipment of 50,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the Government of India. We express our deep appreciation to the Government and people of India for this very much needed support. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vUhB55OfMO\">pic.twitter.com\/vUhB55OfMO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewHolnessJM\/status\/1369307596834959367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On March 8, the made-in-India vaccines reached Jamaica under the \u2018Vaccine Maitri\u2019 initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, last week former West Indies cricketers Viv Richards, Richie Richardson, Jimmy Adams and Ramnaresh Sarwan thanked PM Modi for providing COVID-19 vaccines to the Caribbean countries under the \u2018Vaccine Maitri\u2019 initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies cricketer Andre Russell wrote,\u201d I just want to say a big thank you to Prime Minister Modi and the India High Commission for sending COVID-19 vaccines to Jamaica\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":25478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[621,991,81,310,1135,71],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-andre-russell","tag-astrazeneca","tag-coronavirus-vaccine","tag-covid-19-vaccine","tag-cricket-west-indies","tag-narendra-modi"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}