Prognosis
India Resumes Covid Vaccine Exports to Hamstrung Covax
- New Delhi halted shipments of Covid-19 shots in April
- Covax has fallen short of goals to vaccinate world’s poor
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India restarted shipments of Covid-19 vaccines to the Covax initiative, a much needed boost for the beleaguered global sharing body that has struggled to inoculate the world’s poorest nations and now faces a potentially more virulent strain of the coronavirus.
The Serum Institute of India Ltd., the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, said an unnumbered amount of doses of its locally made AstraZeneca Plc shot were shipped for export to Covax on Friday. Serum expects to increase doses “substantially” into the first quarter of next year and to include Novavax Inc.’s inoculation at an unspecified time.