India halts vaccine exports after corona outbreak

AGENCY: THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 – India has suspended the export of corona vaccine. The Indian government has temporarily banned the export of covisilde vaccine developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca due to increasing corona infection in the country.

According to the BBC, India has stopped exporting the corona vaccine due to fears that it may run out of vaccines as the Corona infection increases day by day. The ban could last until the end of April, Indian officials said. The ban will affect 190 countries under the Covax. India has so far sent about 60 million doses to 76 countries, including Nepal. The Serum Institute of India is considered to be the largest vaccine manufacturing company in the world.

Nepal is also using the vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII). Nepal, which received the grant earlier, has also purchased it later. Corona infection has increases rapidly in India recently. On Wednesday alone, 47,000 people were infected with corona and 275 of them died. This is one of the most high infection in India in a single day.

Experts have said that the second wave of Corona has also started in Nepal.