Covid vaccines: India export delay deals blow to poorer countries

Efforts in Africa and elsewhere hit by decision not to export Serum's AstraZeneca jab until end of year

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Vaccine programmes across Africa and much of the developing world will suffer big delays after the world's biggest producer said it would not be exporting the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine until the end of the year.

The decision is likely to leave the Covax global vaccine-sharing facility, which helps poor countries, facing a shortfall of hundreds of millions of doses.