India's COVID vaccine supply jumps, raising export hopes

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India's daily vaccinations surpassed 10 million doses last Friday, with national vaccine production more than doubling since April and set to rise again in the coming weeks.

FILE PHOTO: 3D-printed small toy figurines, a syringe and vial labelled"coronavirus disease vaccine" are seen in front of India flag in this illustrationNEW DELHI - India's rising output of COVID-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will return as an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year.

The Serum Institute of India , the world's biggest vaccine maker, is now producing about 150 million doses a month of its version of the AstraZeneca shot, more than twice its April output of about 65 million, a source with knowledge of the matter said. "With successful national vaccination and the arrival of more products, we are hoping that Indian supply to COVAX will resume as quickly as possible," a spokesperson for the platform's co-lead GAVI told Reuters in an email.

Bharat Biotech, the maker of India's first domestically developed COVID-19 shot, on Sunday inaugurated a new factory with a production capacity of 10 million doses a month. It said it was "marching towards" a goal of a total annual capacity of about 1 billion doses of the drug, Covaxin.

 

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