Coronavirus: Modi pledges to use India vaccine-production capacity to help ‘all humanity’, South Asia

NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at the United Nations on Saturday (Sept 26) that his country’s vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight the Covid-19 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 pre-recorded 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 said India was moving ahead with Phase 3 clinical trials – the large-scale trials considered the gold…