It was 4am but a large crowd had still gathered outside the Serum Institute of India in Pune on Tuesday, its members jostling for position to get a better look as the gates of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer opened and a convoy of refrigerated trucks started rolling out.Contained within were the first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine produced by Serum – 6.44 million shots ready to be flown to 14 cities across the country, kick-starting what officials have called the…

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