New Delhi: The Centre on Friday said that it is taking steps to boost production of indigenous Covid-19 vaccines, and the production capacity of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin will increase 6-7 times by July. The government is taking steps under Aatmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 Mission Covid Suraksha to accelerate the development and production of indigenous vaccines. The Centre’s Department of Biotechnology is providing financial support as grant to vaccine manufacturing facilities to enhance their production capacities, a release said.
“The current production capacity of indigenously developed Covaxin vaccine will be doubled by May-June 2021 and then increased nearly 6-7 fold by July-August 2021 i.e increasing the production from 1 crore vaccine doses in April 2021 to 6-7 crore vaccine dose/month in July- August. It is expected to reach nearly 10 crore doses per month by September 2021,” it said.
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