Never exported vaccines at the cost of people in India, says Serum CEO

Adar Poonawalla said that India had a large stockpile of vaccine doses in January and at the same time many other countries were facing acute crisis in terms of coronavirus during that period

Serum Institute and the government have never exported vaccines at the cost of people in India and remain committed to do everything we can in the support of coronavirus vaccination drive in the country, said Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive officer of the company.

"People do not tend to realise that India is amongst the two most populous countries in the world and the vaccination drive for such a population cannot be completed in two to three months," Poonawalla said in a statement on Tuesday.

"It would take 2-3 years for entire world population to get fully vaccinated."

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