India's Serum Institute to make millions of potential coronavirus vaccine doses


  • World
  • Wednesday, 29 Apr 2020

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Serum Institute of India said on Tuesday it plans this year to produce up to 60 million doses of a potential vaccine against the new coronavirus that is under clinical trial in Britain.

Serum, the world’s largest maker of vaccines by volume, is mass-producing the vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford, which started testing it on humans last week, and is a leader in the global race to develop an antidote to the novel coronavirus.

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