exports of Covid-19 doses after meeting domestic needs, the government has said. “Once our immediate need of vaccinating a significant proportion of Indian people is achieved and vaccine stockpiles are visible from multiple sources, we would then like to provide vaccines to others," said VK Paul, Niti Aayog member (health), in an interview with The Associated Press.
Paul said that a resumption of exports is still “very much on the radar". But he did not inform of a timeline for the same. Why did India stop exporting vaccines? The country had begun sending doses to more than 90 nations from January.
However, the exports came to a halt when the second wave of coronavirus set in India and demand for vaccines surged. This had left many