Covidshield' doses by July next year.Poonawalla's statement comes after PM Modi on Saturday visited the company's pandemic level facility in Pune to personally review the development of Covid-19 vaccine and the manufacturing process.Addressing a press conference, Poonawalla said, "As of now we don't have anything in writing of how many doses the Government of India would purchase, but the indication is three to four hundred million doses by July 2021."'Applying for emergency use of Covid vaccine in 2 weeks'The Serum Institute chief also said that the SII will apply for emergency authorisation of the coronavirus vaccine within two weeks. "We are in the process of applying in the next two weeks for the emergency use," Poonawalla added.Serum.