New Delhi, India.
The Serum Institute of India, the largest manufacturer of vaccines of the world, shipped its first batch of it covid-19 vaccines for the global vaccination program Covax.
The acquisition effort and fair distribution of vaccines worldwide is committed to the vaccines for at least the 20% of the population plus vulnerable of any country.
Covax, led by the World Health Organization and the GAVI alliance, made arrangements with manufacturers to 2,000 million doses andn 2021 and has the option of others 1,000 million.
This includes 1.1 billion doses from the Serum Institute, which produces the vaccines AstraZeneca and Novavax.
The Southeast Asian WHO tweeted photos of the first shipments loaded onto a truck at the Serum manufacturing facility in Put, west of India
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The Indian government has already taken millions of doses of the serum AstraZeneca, as well as other countries poorer.
Company director Adar Poonawalla urged other countries on Sunday “patients”, stating that it had received instructions to prioritize its domestic market export.