Biological E eyeing to make 600 Million doses of Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 Vaccine per year
New Delhi: Indian pharmaceutical company Biological E Ltd is looking to contract-manufacture roughly 600 million doses of Johnson and Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine annually, its managing director told Reuters on Wednesday.
The country's inoculation drive is currently using the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research.
Several other vaccines, including Russia's Sputnik V, Cadila Healthcare's ZyCov-D and a Novavax product are in the queue in the world's biggest vaccine-making country.
"We are targeting 600 million doses for J&J," Biological E's Mahima Datla said, adding it was not clear when they could start production. "This will be in addition to our own product for which we are targeting approximately 1 billion doses."
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