Government expects to get about 266 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in August as a simpler licensing process has helped the government secure far more than earlier expected, the president of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party said on Friday.
Late last month, a senior government official told reporters that the government could only count on getting about 150 million doses in August.
Since then, India’s drug regulator has approved the Johnson & Johnson vaccine – though the company has not yet committed to a delivery schedule – and commercial production of Russia’s Sputnik V in India could start too.
Indian drugmaker Cadila Healthcare’s ZyCoV-D could also be approved soon, the health minister said this month.
Writing in a column, Jagat Prakash Nadda, president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, credited Modi for making it easier for vaccine makers to get approval.
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