Covid-19 vaccine: India Will Play An Important Role In The Development, Says Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Emphasizing the role India can play in the development of the coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India will play a determinant role in the development of the Covid-19 vaccine. Expressing hope about India's capability in meeting the world's requirement of the vaccine after its development, PM Modi has said that India can meet the demand by scaling up the production of the vaccine.

'I'm certain that India will have an important role in developing and in scaling up production of the vaccine once it is to discover', Currently India accounts for the production of approximately 2/3rd of the vaccines needed for children across the world, said PM Narendra Modi.

Modi also pointed out the huge efforts being carried out by the Indian pharmaceutical companies to aid in the development and production of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Today also our companies are active in the international endeavour for development and production of Covid-19 vaccines'', PM Modi added to exhibit the role India has played in the health and research field.

Commending the Indian pharmaceutical industry, PM Modi said that the continuing coronavirus pandemic has once again shown that the situation can be used as an asset for the whole world and not just India. He said that the Indian pharma industry has played a key role in reducing the hardware of healthcare for developing industries and by lowering the cost of medicines. Especially, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved human clinical trials of Covaxin from Bharat Biotech.