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India wants Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson to seek licence for COVID-19 vaccines soon: government official

FILE PHOTO: Injections with doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are pictured in Berlin

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India wants Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson to seek licence for their COVID-19 vaccines as soon as possible, a senior government official said on Tuesday, shortly after the government announced it would fast-track emergency approvals.

"We hope and we invite the vaccine makers such as Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and others...to be ready to come to India as early as possible," Vinod Kumar Paul, a senior government health official, told a news conference.

(Reporting by Neha Arora and Krishna N. Das, editing by Ed Osmond)