Bill Gates says world needs India's help for large-scale COVID-19 vaccine production

Bill Gates, principal founder of Microsoft Corp., said that India is a leing vaccine producer and its cooperation is needed for manufacturing COVID-19 vaccine on a large scale. Gates told PTI he is quite optimistic that several coronavirus vaccines will be in final st by first quarter of 2021, ding that production of vaccine in India will be in “fairly big volume”. 

“All of us want to get a vaccine out in India as fast as we can, once we kw that it's very effective and very safe,” he ded.

Speaking on India’s role in vaccine development and manufacturing, Gates said that world is looking towards India for sharing responsibility on behalf of developing countries. He opined that India’s willingness to play a significant role in vaccine production and providing its access to or developing countries will be a critical step in fighting pandemic.

remarks come soon after Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation published its fourth annual Goalkeepers Report with COVID-19 at centre st. data showed how pandemic has stopped 20 years of progress based on 18 indicators included in United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“In recent years, world has improved on every single one. This year, on vast majority, we’ve regressed,” wrote Bill and Melinda Gates.

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Call for cooperation

duo, however, said that response to pandemic has shown us some of best of humanity with pathbreaking invation, heroic acts by frontline workers, and contribution from ordinary towards ir families, neighbours, and communities. y stressed that all countries must work toger to end pandemic and begin rebuilding ecomies. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated millions of dollars for coronavirus vaccine and treatment research programmes. 

“Researchers are very close to developing safe, effective coronavirus vaccines, but breakthrough science must be met by breakthrough generosity. We need leers in government and pharmaceutical industry to ensure that everyone, regardless of where y live, can access se vaccines,” y ded.

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(With PTI inputs)