Thursday, March 18, 2021

India Fights Back : Vaccine Diplomacy: Ending Global Inequity

Quite impressive! Quite a contrast!

"India continues to lead in assisting other countries under its 'Vaccine Maitri' initiative amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under this initiative, India has been providing coronavirus vaccines to its neighbouring countries. As on 17 March 2021 India has supplied 'Made in India' vaccines to 72 Nations [over 16 million doses]"

India plans to have over 300 million people of its population to be vaccinated by August 2021!

"... The Serum Institute of India is the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume, founded over 50 years ago by now-multibillionaire Cyrus Poonawalla. It will likely provide not only almost all the vaccines administered in India, but many elsewhere in the world too, once exports are permitted later in the year. ..."
India’s Vaccine Colossus Is a Model for the World to Follow Serum Institute to manufacture vaccines not just for the world’s second-most populous country, but likely many others too

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