A quarter of total vaccine exports happened since Nov: Govt data

India will soon cross 100 million vaccine exports. Bangladesh and Indonesia purchased the maximum number of doses since November, shows MEA data

India was one of the few countries to have exported doses to over 88 countries back in April, when the world over countries were hoarding vaccines. While India stopped vaccine exports as the second wave of Covid-19 gripped the country, it restarted vaccine exports in November.

In fact, over a quarter of total doses exported by India have come since November. While the country had exported 70.4 million doses till November, data from the ministry of external affairs shows that it has since then exported 24.2 million doses.

While two-thirds of the supply has gone towards commercial considerations, one-third