A recent report published in the Chinese government mouthpiece Global Times cited the country’s experts as suggesting that India’s vaccines are no less competitive than the Chinese variant, both in terms of research and production capacity.
The report noted that India is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer.
Admitting that the Indian vaccines were more trustworthy globally, the report quoted Jiang Chunlai from the Jilin University’s School of Life Sciences who had visited the Bharat Biotech facility some time back as saying that India had a “very mature production and supply capacity”.
“India has the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India that has a very mature production and supply capacity, even stronger than some Western countries,” the Global Times report quoted Jiang as saying.
“Indian vaccine manufacturers also have a much earlier cooperation with global institutes including WHO, GAVI and the Pan American Health Organization in South America (PAHO), and earned their trust decades ago,” he said, adding, “They take a closer approach to Western standards in vaccine development and regulation that has also helped their exports.”
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