India's Role In COVID-19 Vaccine Production Critical: Bill Gates

In a conversation with PTI, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has stated that India will play a crucial role in the production and manufacturing of vaccines owing to its large manufacturing capacity. 

"It's very likely that roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine will take place in fairly big volume (in India) sometime next year," Bill Gates said.

Gates also is optimistic that by the first quarter of 2021, the world will have effective COVID-19 vaccines.