Spike in Covid-19 cases prompts India to reassess vaccine exports, South Asia News & Top Stories


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NEW DELHI - India has supplied more doses of the Covid-19 vaccine elsewhere than it has administered to its own people, a top Indian diplomat told the United Nations General Assembly last week. Notwithstanding global praise for its altruism, the government in New Delhi is reassessing its international supplies with the worrying spike of new infections at home. As at Tuesday (March 30), India has exported 64 million doses to around 84 countries, while a million fewer doses had been administered within India. But outbound vaccine supplies have been tightened as the number of daily cases has shot up from...