The Centre permits export to Indonesia of 20mn Novavax dosages

New Delhi : Nov 19, 2009 - The Centre approved export of 20,000,000 doses of Novavax Covid-19 from the Serum Institute of India to Indonesia.

This was a Friday statement by a Health Ministry officialOfficials also stated that 10 million Covishield doses were allowed to be exported from the Centre to the WHO- and GAVA-led international vaccine-sharing program COVAX.

The source said that although the Centre does not have to make a decision on vaccines for children, it will undergo a scientific review before making a final call.First, the government wants to ensure it has sufficient doses of vaccines for all its citizens.

India has administered two doses of a minimum to 81% and 2 doses to 41%, respectively, to its adult population.There are no plans for the government to provide booster shots immediately.

In the meantime, 110 countries recognized Indias vaccines Covishield & Covaxin and agreed to mutually recognize Covid-19 certificates.In the past 24 hours, 72,948,864 doses of vaccines were administered.As of Friday morning, the Covid coverage in India had reached 115.23 million.These sessions have produced 1,18,392,293 of these results.

The Health Ministry reported Friday that more than 129 million vaccines had been distributed to states and UTs by the Central government.This was through a free channel as well as direct state procurement.There are currently 22.66 million unutilized vaccine doses available to the States/UTs.avr/sks/ksk #Centre #permits #Indonesia #Novavax #dosages #Delhi.