India, Feb. 28 -- India is renowned for its prowess in scalable and affordable vaccine manufacturing, producing a diverse range of vaccines, including inactivated and live vaccines, protein subunit vaccines, and next-generation vaccines like viral vector vaccines, mRNA, and DNA vaccines. It manufactures 50 per cent of the world's vaccines, and in the last year alone, 4 billion doses of the 8 billion vaccine doses manufactured and distributed globally, were produced in India. Key developers, including global leaders like Serum Institute of India (SII), Bharat Biotech, and Biological E have been instrumental in addressing many globally relevant health challenges and improving preventive healthcare for millions of people.

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