India is playing an important role in developing COVID-19 vaccine

28 Apr 2020

India is playing an important role in developing COVID-19 vaccine

India is playing an important role in developing COVID-19 vaccineAs the world is rushing to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, India can play an important role in developing and mass manufacturing any vaccine that may emerge.

India's capacity to develop and manufacture

Did you know, India is one of the largest manufacturers of generic drugs and vaccines in the world.

Generic drugs are the exact copies but cheaper versions of more expensive drugs). The Indian pharmaceutical industry has a reputation for producing good vaccines for sale and export.

Whenever a COVID0-19 vaccine is developed, there will be a high demand for it. This is where many big vaccine-making companies in India can make a difference as they already have the capability to produce large numbers of vaccine doses.

One such company is the Serum Institute of India. It is the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines It makes 1.5 billion doses every year and sold at a very low cost.
 	Serum Institute of India is currently working with the University of Oxford in the UK to mass manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine that Oxford is developing.
 	Additionally, the Serum Institute of India is also working with Codagenix, an American biotech company to develop another type of vaccine.
 	Another Indian company called Bharat Biotech has also announced that it is working with US companies to mass manufacture a vaccine.
 	Many other Indian companies such as Zydus Cadilla, Biological E and more, are also working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine.

India's ability to manage large vaccination programs

Apart from the above, India also has a widespread existing Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). India’s UIP provides free vaccines against 11 life-threatening diseases. This can help uniformly spread the use of the future COVID-19 vaccine, saving lives.

WHO and many countries say that they are looking up to India in these two fields.

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