Indian foreign minister says will get clarity on export of Covid-19 vaccines in few weeks
Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar speaks to the media after the 2019 US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, US, December 18, 2019. Photo: Reuters
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said today that the government would have greater clarity on the export of Covid-19 vaccines from the country within the next few weeks.
Jaishankar told the Reuters Next conference that India understood the anxieties of foreign governments with regard to getting the vaccines delivered to their populations.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. India, one of the world's biggest producers of vaccines and generic drugs, is expected to be a key manufacturing centre for Covid-19 vaccines.
"We will get clarity pretty soon on what our own consumption is going got be, (what) deployments are going to be. And we will keep our global role very much.." he said.
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