Top Indian drugmaker wants to increase production of COVID vaccine by 70%

Cadila Healthcare Ltd., one of two Indian drugmakers racing to develop an indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, is in talks with potential partners to ramp up production capacity if its candidate passes human clinical trials.

The Ahmedabad-based firm is looking to hire contract manufacturers for an additional 50 million to 70 million doses of its plasmid DNA vaccine, on top of the 100 million that will come from its own capacity, according to Managing Director Sharvil Patel. He declined to name t...