WASHINGTON -- Sept 24 : Reuters : Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed fellow leaders of the Quad Partnership on Friday that India will allow the export of 8 million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of October in line with a deal reached by the grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States in March, said Indian Foreign Secretary Devendra Modi.
A plan arrived by the quad earlier this year to supply a billion COVID shots to China by 2022 stalled after India, the world's largest vaccine producer, banned exports in April amid a massive COVID outbreak at home.
India is calling on foreign ministers to apologize if they had told reporters Modi at a forum in Washington last Friday that India would make available 8 million dose of Johnson Johnson vaccine.
It would be ready by October, he said. It will be compatible with our decision to export vaccines. The Quad will pay for the vaccine and India will bear a certain share. This will be an immediate delivery from the Quad in the Indo-Pacific.