1st 6 months of 2021 will see shortage of vaccine globally, says CEO of SII Adar Poonawalla

Dec. 28: Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII) informed that India is a part of ‘COVAX’.  He said, “We will keep giving 50% of everything we make to India & to COVAX at the same time. India has such a large population that we will probably end up giving the majority of those 50 million doses to India first.”

Adar Poonawalla further said, “The first six months of 2021 will see a shortage globally. Nobody can help that. But we will see easing off by August-September 2021 as other vaccine manufactures also being able to supply.”

CEO Poonawalla added, “We have 40 to 50 million doses of Covishield stockpiled. We will be producing around 300 million doses by July 2021.”