
Modi offers India’s COVID-19 vaccine capacity to ‘all humanity’
Prime minister says India moving ahead with third-phase trial before mass production as country’s cases, deaths surge.
Narendra Modi said in August that India was ready to mass-produce COVID-19 vaccines when scientists gave the go-ahead [File: Narendramodi.in via AP]
27 Sep 2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged at the United Nations that his country’s vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight the coronavirus crisis.
“As the largest vaccine-producing country of the world, I want to give one more assurance to the global community today,” Modi said in a prerecorded speech to the UN General Assembly.
“India’s vaccine production and delivery capacity will be used to help all humanity in fighting this crisis.”
Modi made the pledge eve...