Not enough Covid-19 vaccines for everybody till 2024 end: Adar Poonawalla

Poonawalla estimates that the world will need 15 billion doses of the vaccine if it is taken in two steps

Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of India, has warned that it will take at least four years to make enough Covid-19 vaccines for the entire world, according to an interview in the Financial Times. 

He added that the long wait was due to the fact that pharmaceutical companies were not ramping up their production levels quickly enough to vaccinate the global population in less time. “It’s going to take four to five years until everyone gets the vaccine on this planet," said Poonawalla.

According to FT, Poonawalla estimates the world will need 15 billion doses of vaccine if