India has been inoculating its people with the AstraZeneca vaccine produced locally at the Serum Institute of India (SII), Covaxin made by local firm Bharat Biotech and has begun rolling out Russia's Sputnik V.īoth SII and Bharat Biotech were ramping up production to produce 100-110 million doses in the coming months, Paul said. There was no immediate response from Moderna or Johnson & Johnson to Reuters requests for comment. Pfizer declined further comment, citing confidential discussions with the government. Pfizer "remains committed to continuing our engagement with the Government of India towards making the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine available for use in the country", a company representative said in a statement. This is under discussion but there is no decision as of now." "We are examining the request (for indemnity) and we will take a decision in the larger interest of people and on merit. He said the government was examining the company's request to grant it legal protections against the use of its vaccine in India. "Yes, we are engaged with Pfizer because they have indicated availability of a certain amount of, certain volume of vaccines in coming months, possibly starting in July," Vinod Kumar Paul, a top government official, told a news briefing. Thursday's move is set to speed up the arrival of Pfizer shots and those developed by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Moderna (MRNA.O), with which the government has held multiple discussions but met with little success.
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"The provision has now been further amended to waive the trial requirement altogether for the well-established vaccines manufactured in other countries," the government said in a statement. India pledged last month to fast-track imports, but its insistence on local trials and a dispute over indemnity stalled discussions with Pfizer. Only about 3% of India's 1.3 billion people have been fully vaccinated, the lowest rate among the 10 countries with the most cases. Experts believe that figure grossly underestimates the actual toll.
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