India’s Ministry of External Affairs, on Thursday, said the government was in touch with major vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer, J&J and Moderna for sourcing and local manufacturing of their vaccines in India.
“We have also helped expedite the introduction of Sputnik-V vaccines,” the external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told ANI.
Meanwhile, foreign secretary Harsh V Shringla said India will participate in “creating global scale capacities needed to deal with pandemic scale challenges. Global conversations are underway the G7, G20, QUAD, BRICS, UN & WHO itself,” said Shringla while speaking at WHO’s South-East Asia Regional Health Partners’ Forum on COVID.
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