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NEW DELHI, May 3 — India’s daily Covid-19 shots have fallen sharply from an all-time high reached early last month as domestic companies struggle to boost supplies and imports are limited, even as the country fights the world’s worst surge in infections. Daily inoculations have averaged 2.5...

Daily inoculations have averaged 2.5 million since hitting a peak of 4.5 million on April 5. ― Reuters picNEW DELHI, May 3 — India’s daily Covid-19 shots have fallen sharply from an all-time high reached early last month as domestic companies struggle to boost supplies and imports are limited, even as the country fights the world’s worst surge in infections.

India, with the world’s biggest vaccine making capacity, has partially or fully immunised only 12 per cent of its 1.35 billion people, according to data from the government’s Co-WinPublic forecasts by its only two current vaccine producers show their total monthly output of 70-80 million doses would increase only in two months or more, though the number of people eligible for vaccines has doubled to an estimated 800 million since May 1.

Pfizer said on Monday it was in discussions with the Indian government seeking an “expedited approval pathway” for its vaccine. “We are currently discussing with the Indian government an expedited approval pathway to make our Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine available for use in the country.”

 

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