Small contract manufacturers wait to take a shot at Covid vaccines

A host of lesser-known vaccine makers are eyeing contract manufacturing opportunities for global and domestic majors

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Coronavirus | Coronavirus Vaccine | Vaccination

Sohini Das & Vinay Umarji  |  Mumbai/Ahmedabad 

As India, the world’s vaccine factory, gears up to produce more Covid-19 vaccines — both indigenous and foreign — the stage is set for the smaller contract manufacturers to step in.

Foreign vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s mRNA vaccines are expected to enter India, but the government has indicated that it would expect that these vaccines would be eventually manufactured here. Does India have the capacit­i­es and the expertise to make these vaccines based on new technology? “India has enough fill and finish capacities, and there ...

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First Published: Fri, July 16 2021. 06:10 IST
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