NEW DELHI: India is among many other countries like Russia, China, US and UK fast-tracking processes to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director general Balram Bhargava said, underlining the important role of India as the supplier of 60% vaccines administered across the world.
Bhargava said all the countries developing a vaccine are in touch with Indian companies because irrespective of where a vaccine is developed, India will play a key role in manufacturing it for the masses.
He also stressed that it is “moral duty” to fast-track development of a vaccine but without “compromising on the science, quality and ethics part of it”.
“Any vaccine candidate developed and produced in any part of the world, will ultimately have to be scaled up by India or China because these are the two main producers. That is why every developed nation is in communication with I