Covid-19 roundup: India to resume vaccine exports as its own campaign is under control; Pfizer to file for vaccine OK in children ages 5-11
After vaccine exports were halted to focus on providing its own people with enough doses, India will begin shipping its Covid-19 vaccines to the Covax program again, the health minister said Monday.
In April, the country halted shipments as it faced a brutal wave of the pandemic, which saw daily case numbers skyrocket from around 25,000 in mid-March to more than 400,000 a day by May. Since then, however, the vaccine output has more than doubled, and minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that it is set to quadruple to more than 300 million doses in October. Only the excess supply will be sent to Covax, he said.
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