The SII will commence Covid vaccine export under the COVAX programme from 23 November. Nepal, Tajikistan, Mozambique and Bangladesh are the 4 nations that will receive the doses.
India has exported over 66 million vaccine doses to nearly 100 countries but the country stopped the shipment after the second Covid wave in April this year.
The campaign has run into problems as wealthy nations raced ahead in protecting their people. Only 1/5th of people in poor nations have received a dose, compared with 80% in rich nations.
The US will allocate nearly 1.9 crores of the first tranche of 2.5 crore doses of unused Covid vaccines through COVAX to countries in South and Southeast Asia, and Africa.
Serum Institute, which had planned to supply over 140 mn doses by June, had to pull back because of the domestic emergency, USAID administrator Samantha Power told US lawmakers.
SII also said that the vaccines were exported earlier in January since a large stockpile of doses were left, and the country's number of Covid cases were at an all-time low.
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Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
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