Health workers shift a box containing coronavirus vaccines from a vehicle to a cold storage at Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality hospital in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, January 12, 2021. An Indian state-run company will buy vaccines from the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech International for supplying to Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Seychelles and Mauritius, the people said, asking not to be identified as the plan is still under discussion. The government will then offer the vaccines to countries in Latin America, Africa and the former Soviet republics. Serum will supply 2 million vaccines to the South American nation. The Serum Institute is manufacturing a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc while Bharat Biotech’s is an indigenous one.

Source: The Standard January 14, 2021 15:11 UTC