President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on their COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

In a tweet sent out on Sunday, President Solih said that he congratulates PM Modi and the Indian government for 'its landmark program to vaccinate India’s population against COVID-19'.

"I’m highly confident that you’ll be successful in this endeavor and that we are finally seeing an end to the COVID-19 scourge," the tweet added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the vaccine drive on Saturday with a live television address as 3,000 centers nationwide were set to inoculate a first round of health care workers.

The plan is to give the vaccine to millions more health care and frontline workers by the spring.