News Forum - COVID: Why is India’s largest vaccine maker cutting production?

[Thaiger]

India’s largest vaccine maker is reducing its production of the COVID-19 vaccine, as the country now has more doses than it needs to fully vaccinate the eligible population. As of Monday, nearly 816 million of the country’s eligible adult population had received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 512 million were fully vaccinated, according to health ministry figures. “We have more than the 1.8 billion vaccine doses required to fully vaccinate the 950 million eligible adults,” Dr. N K Arora, chief of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI), told DW. The NTAGI provides the government with […]

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[Cabra]

Why not produce and send to countries that need them?