India Orders 300 Million Doses of Vaccines After Court Rebuke

  • New vaccine being developed by Biological-E, Baylor College
  • Modi has pledged to vaccinate every Indian by the end of 2021

People wait in line at a Covid-19 vaccination center set up in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on May 31.

Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg
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India ordered 300 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by a local manufacturer, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government comes under pressure from the nation’s Supreme Court to cover more of the population.