India to resume vaccine supply to COVAX this week, says WHO’s Swaminathan

New Delhi: Dr Soumya Swaminathan, scientist at the World Health Organisation, said that India will resume its Covid-19 vaccine supplies to COVAX countries this week.

Covishield doses should be going out this week from the Serum Institute of India (SII) to COVAX countries, Swaminathan said. She expects supplies of 30-40 million doses of Covishield to be supplied before the end of the year.

Swaminathan said that PM Narendra Modi had assured a billion of doses to the world in 2022 at the recent G20 meet.

He said that WHO has seen less than 20% of this supplied, and 80 countries are not on target to meet the 40% coverage by the end of year.