The South Asian giant, dubbed the 'pharmacy of the world', was a major supplier to the Covax programme aimed at ensuring poor countries can access doses.
NEW DELHI - India will resume exporting COVID-19 vaccines from October, five months after it stopped sending supplies abroad in the face of a deadly wave of infections, the health minister said Monday.
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said more than 300 million vaccine doses would be produced in October and one billion in the last three months of the year. Covax is co-led by the World Health Organization , the Gavi vaccine alliance and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, with UNICEF using its vaccine logistics expertise to handle the delivery flights.The Serum Institute of India plant, producing AstraZeneca doses, was supposed to be the early backbone of Covax's supply chain."This could have an immense positive impact on both health security within India as well as globally," he told AFP.
So far, Covax has shipped 286 million doses - far below where it wanted to be at this stage - to 141 participating economies.
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