India to resume Covid vaccine exports in 2022: Head of govt expert panel

A second wave of Covil infections and local supply delays prompted the government to prioritize its own citizens and halted overseas shipments of vaccines in April.

India will likely restart exporting Covid-19 vaccines next year once it has immunized its own adult population, the head of an influential government expert panel said.

“Almost 60 countries are hardly having any access to vaccine and India should be able to provide a substantial portion in 2022,” N.K. Arora, chairman of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization in India, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday. “As soon as we are through with our adult population we should have sufficient vaccine to share with the rest of the world.”

The South Asian nation, which has the second largest