Indian Alliance For Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine?

COVAX Supplies Being Discussed

Pfizer is unlikely to tie up with Indian companies soon for manufacture of its COVID-19 vaccine as it has built capacity for the first phase. However, as discussions to supply to the COVAX facility and developing countries progress, it could evaluate such opportunities later.

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Indian Partners In Demand For COVID-19 Vaccines Production • Source: Shutterstock

Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE lifted global spirits when interim results from Phase III trials of their m-RNA vaccine candidate showed over 90% efficacy in preventing COVID-19 infection at seven days after the second dose. Though the news was welcomed in India as well, commercial gains for domestic companies are not on the horizon soon. (Also see "Pfizer And BioNTech Claim COVID-19 Vaccine Success" - Scrip, 9 November, 2020.)

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