India has shown its capacity to be the global-scale manufacturer and also an innovator of the Covid-19 vaccine, chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan said.
"India has shown the capacity to be a manufacturer at the global scale and also be an innovator when it came to vaccine development. There is a huge amount of scope to study the impact of vaccines, which needs to be thought-through by a very coordinated approach," she said while speaking at the Global Bio-India 2021.
As many as 30 vaccines are at different stages of development in India. Covaxin, developed indigenously by Biotech, and Covishield, developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and being manufactured at Serum Institute of India, are already in use in the country.
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