Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech ramp up Covid-19 vaccine export plan

Home-grown firms get new orders: 10 million for SII, 4.5 million for Bharat Bio

Vaccine exports get a shot in the arm from global drug demand. Pune’s Serum Institute of India (SII) has shipped 30 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine to 20 countries. Bharat Biotech is all set to start exports to countries like Brazil and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by the end of this week.

Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech — which developed the indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin with the Indian Council of Medical Research — is all set to start exporting to Brazil and the UAE from the end of this week.

The company had indicated in mid-January that it had signed an agreement