Covid 19 vaccines.

Large producing nations are cutting deals for foreign allies or countries where they seek influence despite pressing needs at home.

China is hashing out agreements across Africa.

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is under legal scrutiny for sending shots abroad, and Russia is distributing across resource rich Latin America.

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The government even offered to trade health workers in exchange for vaccines from Britain and Germany.

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With the vaccine having Angela Parliament commodities, there is perhaps no where this new brand of diplomacy is more evident than the world's biggest maker of vaccines, India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leveraging supplies to strengthen regional ties and push back against its rival China.

It's only just got its domestic immunization program up and running.

But India has already supplied at least 15.6 million doses of the locally made AstraZeneca vaccine to 17 countries, either through donations or commercial contracts.

Some Indians have criticized the government's focus on exports when they say more needs to be done to inoculate at home.

Critics say so called vaccine diplomacy is undermining efforts to create a fair distribution.

The World Health Organization urged nations against distributing vaccines unilaterally.

It says one on one deals undermine its global scheme, Kovacs and its goal of equitable access.