4 million doses of Pfizer, Moderna likely through COVAX by August

Indemnity issue to be settled to bring the two US vaccines through COVAX

The global Covid vaccine collaboration COVAX says all participants in the facility must have signed the indemnity agreements with the manufacturers in question to receive doses through COVAX.

Before the Moderna and Pfizer messenger ribonucleic acid (or mRNA) vaccines come to India via this route, the legalities around the indemnity clause will have to be settled.

India is expecting 3-4 million doses of Covid vaccines from US majors Moderna and Pfizer soon, claimed Reu­ters. The international agency said around 3-4 million shots are expected in India through the COVAX facility in August.

COVAX, led by the Gavi vaccine alliance and the World Health