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Sohini Das leads the automobile and healthcare verticals at Business Standard. In her 17 years as a journalist, she has written on myriad subjects and sectors -- FMCG, dairies, tourism, and state elections, among others, across Kolkata, Ahmedabad and now Mumbai. She loves doing personality stories and ground reportage.
Sohini Das leads the automobile and healthcare verticals at Business Standard. In her 17 years as a journalist, she has written on myriad subjects and sectors -- FMCG, dairies, tourism, and state elections, among others, across Kolkata, Ahmedabad and now Mumbai. She loves doing personality stories and ground reportage.
Could be priced at Rs 600-650/dose for institutional sales
"He has asked the industry to prioritise deliveries to meet the country's needs first and then focus on global supplies," said a person in the know, who did not wish to be named.
Govt okays Rs 4,500 cr upfront payment for 300 mn doses
With the launch, the company has become the first Indian and second global firm to develop the drug, which is a generic version of Abbott's Duphaston
18 new sites get DCGI consent to make antiviral used for treating Covid-19
Of this list, Sputnik V is already approved in India and Sinovac is unlikely to come in as it does not meet the aforementioned criteria
Poonawalla had said earlier that US curbs were hampering scale-up of Novavax vaccine at Pune. Serum has collaborated with Novavax of US to make its vaccine here and supply to Covax at $3 a shot
Bharat Biotech and 3 PSEs to ramp up Covaxin production capacity
Pfizer CEO has said a 3rd booster shot likely within a year of vaccination
Oxygen makers flag concern over shortage of liquid oxygen
Many vaccine makers in talks with govt as India wants a portfolio of products
Now demand is growing almost 100 per cent week-on-week, leading to a testing crisis, said an industry insider.
The vaccine would be transported in frozen form by air and road
Bharat Biotech is trying to ramp up capacities of Covaxin to 12 million doses per month by July, from the current 5 million doses per month
Gennova's Covid vaccine candidate HGCO19 would remain stable at 2 to 8 degree Celsius temperature
A year later, non-Covid treatments fall off priority list again
No need for prior local clinical trials for vaccines cleared by regulators
Rajesh Bhushan, Union health secretary, said that there were over 20 million doses in the pipeline to be distributed to states
Russian Covid-19 vaccine granted restricted emergency-use authorisation in India
Final nod from DCGI soon, jab likely at $3/dose