What happens when the vaccine factory of the world can’t deliver?
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What happens when the vaccine factory of the world can’t deliver?By Prashant Yadav, New York Times
Last Updated: May 20, 2021, 11:02 PM IST
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India stopped exporting Covid-19 vaccines in mid-April, leaving Covax and the 92 low-income and lower-middle-income countries that depend on the program in the lurch. The shortfall is estimated to be at 190 million doses by the end of June.
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By mid-April, India had manufactured nearly 17 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses globally: It was the world’s fourth-largest producer
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India reported that 4,529 people had died from Covid-19 on Tuesday alone. That’s the highest official daily death count for any country since the beginning of the pandemic, and the real toll is thought to be even higher. More than 25 million cases of infection have been recorded there to date.