India Coronavirus Dispatch: Can govt handle global demand for vaccines?

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India faced with challenge to balance local and global demand for vaccines 

India's central government is staring at a herculean task to inoculate at least hundreds of millions of people of its 1.3 billion population. At the same time, the government is grappling with immense demand from other countries to provide vaccines produced by vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest, a report in Deutsche Welle said.

Many countries, including Brazil, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Bangladesh and South Africa have already made official requests for vaccines manufactured in India. South Africa has placed an order for 1.5 million shots