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India emerges as the biggest purchaser of Covid-19 vaccine with 1,600 million doses

Newsdig | 04/12/2020 01:50 PM | Click to read full article

India has emerged as the biggest buyer of confirmed vaccine doses at 1,600 million as countries are securing shots to combat the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), which has already killed 1.5 million people globally, a study by the US' Duke University showed.

India has so far registered over 9.57 million cases till now and 139,188 people have died. According to a Credit Suisse estimate, India needs about 1.7 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to vaccinate the majority of its adult population.

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