Covid-19: Indian vaccine makers bank on boosters as demand crashes

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NEW DELHI — Indian Covid-19 vaccine makers are lobbying the government to authorise boosters as supplies have so outstripped demand that one drugmaker told Reuters it had suspended a plan to produce more than 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik shot.

The Serum Institute of India , the world's biggest vaccine maker, and Sputnik's India distributor, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, have both said they have approached health authorities about boosters.

The government wants a total of 1.7 billion vaccine doses to fully immunise most of its adults, and the SII plans to make the last of its pending orders to meet its share of that demand by next week. But only 1.2 million doses of Sputnik V have been administered in India, government data shows. Some four million doses, bottled in India using imported material from Russia, exported, said two sources.

An Indian pharmaceutical company that was supposed to produce more than 100 million Sputnik doses has put the plan on hold without making a single commercial dose, said a source with direct knowledge of the decision.

 

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