Countries must increase their healthcare spending as a vaccine for the coronavirus disease Covid-19 will "take a very long time" to be ready, said Biocon executive chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said on Saturday.
She was speaking in a webinar on 'Pharma and Healthcare's New Normal: Engaging With Customers in Uncertain Times; Business Model Post-Covid-19', organised by CorpGini.
"...We believe that it will take a very long time before you can actually have a safe vaccine that can be accessible to the entire country. We must understand that vaccine development is a very complex process. Shortest time taken for any vaccine is not less