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India to produce Johnson & Johnson vaccine under Quad initiative

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eMediNexus    12 March 2021

Under the first Quad vaccine initiative, India will manufacture the Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. The project is going to be financed by Japan and the US, and Australia will employ its logistics capacity for shipping the vaccines to Southeast Asia and the Pacific countries.

This should be a key takeaway from Friday’s first ever Quad summit between PM Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga and Australian PM Scott Morrison that will help emphasize India’s strength in the pharma sector. This is among the earliest multilateral summits by the Biden administration and stresses on the growing strategic union between the Quad countries to counter China’s expansionist policies in the security and economic sectors… (ET Healthworld – TNN, March 12, 2021)

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