WHO must approve India's vaccines 'at the earliest': Modi at G20 meeting

Country can produce more than 5 billion doses for the world next year to contain the coronavirus, he says.

India is ready to produce over 5 billion Covid vaccine doses next year to help the world in the fight against the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a G-20 Summit session in Rome on Saturday and asserted that it was necessary that the WHO approves Indian vaccines "at the earliest".

A technical advisory group of the UN health agency will meet on November 3 to conduct a final "risk-benefit assessment" for Emergency Use Listing of Covaxin. Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and AstraZeneca and Oxford University's Covishield are the two widely used vaccines in India.
 

The prime minister, in his