PUNE: The CEO of the world's biggest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India, said the company has bolstered its manufacturing ahead of launches over the next few years of shots against diseases lik
An elderly couple waits for their turn as they sit outside a vaccination room, at Max Super Speciality Hospital, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in New Delhi, India, Mar 17, 2021. , said the company has bolstered its manufacturing ahead of launches over the next few years of shots against diseases like malaria and dengue by repurposing facilities used to make COVID-19 immunisations.
"And this is also important because if there is a pandemic again in the future, we can vaccinate the whole of India in a matter of three months, three to four months," Poonawalla said. The ancient mosquito borne disease still kills more than half a million people, mainly young children in sub-Saharan Africa, every year.
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