NEW DELHI : India has restarted exporting covid-19 vaccines, albeit in a limited way, with the first consignments going to Iran, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar, officials said on Sunday.
The resumption comes after a gap of almost six months, one of two officials cited above said adding that the vaccines sent was partly donation besides on commercial basis.
Iran was one of the first countries to get one million doses of Covaxin vaccines on Saturday, manufactured by the Hyderabad based Bharat Biotech.
Covaxin is currently awaiting World Health Organisation (WHO) recognition as one of the vaccines that can be conferred emergency use listing status.