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India's Shilpa Medicare can make 100-200mn doses of COVID-19 shot, says exec

  • The company's shares jumped as much as 9.2% on India's National Stock Exchange following the news.
Published April 7, 2021 Updated April 7, 2021 12:48pm
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BENGALURU: Indian drugmaker Shilpa Medicare Ltd has the production capacity to make 100-200 million doses of a recombinant vaccine for COVID-19, a company executive told Reuters on Wednesday.

The company's shares jumped as much as 9.2% on India's National Stock Exchange following the news.