Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccination drive set to begin at the weekend as the country’s toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, worsened by shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
The first COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa using COVAX doses of Covishield vaccine began in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
India’s manufacturing base is playing a critical role to close the gap between richer and poorer countries,
Now the worry for Nepal health officials is that its vaccines are accumulating faster than it is able to utilise them.
The agreement is expected to support a minimum of one billion doses of NVX-CoV2373 for India and for the low- and middle-income countries
In India, two indigenous vaccines manufactured by Zydus Cadila and the other by Bharat Biotech , have reached the stage of phase one of human trials