Adar Poonawalla Says Vaccine Shortage To Continue For Few Months

Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla has stated that the vaccine shortage is likely to continue for the next few months. Currently, the company is producing 60-70 million doses of Covishield a month but eyeing to ramp up the capacity to 100 million doses per month by July. He stated that the production capacity was not upped earlier as authorities did not expect the second COVID-19 wave.