in october 2020, he said that SII had produced about 5 crore doses for the purposes of stockpiling. He was confident at the time that his company could scale up to produce a total of 10 crore doses by January. A month later, when prime minister narendra modi visited SII’s headquarters in pune, Poonawalla said his Covid-19 vaccine facility would ramp up to 10 crore doses a month, likely by March. Now, it is May, and SII’s production capacity has remained at around 7 crore doses a month. Poonawalla, meanwhile, has flip-flopped on the reasons for a delay in ramping up.