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India emerging as major COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer

Serum Institute of India plans to make low-cost COVID-19 vaccines available to the developing world

April 29, 2020 11:50 PM UTC
Updated on Apr 30, 2020 at 1:29 AM UTC

At least six Indian companies are developing or co-developing COVID-19 vaccines, but India’s biggest contribution to fighting the pandemic is likely to come from its manufacturing might.

The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, is partnering to manufacture the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 adenovirus vaccine candidate that is being developed by the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, as well as a live-attenuated vaccine that Codagenix Inc. is developing...