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Sohini Das writes on automobile and healthcare sectors for Business Standard. Over her 17 years as a journalist, she has covered multiple sectors and issues -- FMCG, dairy, tourism, and state elections, among others, across Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai. She loves doing personality stories and ground reportage.
Sohini Das writes on automobile and healthcare sectors for Business Standard. Over her 17 years as a journalist, she has covered multiple sectors and issues -- FMCG, dairy, tourism, and state elections, among others, across Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai. She loves doing personality stories and ground reportage.
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
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
Colour-coded doses will have two different antigens
Now, the Drugs Controller General of India DCGI will consider this recommendation and decide whether to grant Sputnik V approval for restricted emergency use in India
One of the largest government-run vaccination sites in Mumbai on the Bandra Kurla Complex grounds has only 350 vaccine doses left
Zydus had recently also slashed prices of its remdesivir brand Remdac to Rs 899 per dose
Deaths due to Covid-19 usually happen two to three weeks after the diagnosis of the disease, according to research and doctors' accounts
For the next one or two months, we will be prioritising supplies only to India based on the request of the government and also depending on the needs of our people, said Poonawalla
This comes after govt panel visits facilities of SII and Bharat Biotech
More players like Serum Institute expected to join the fray to make Sputnik V
Stricter curbs from Monday; Mumbai civic authorities brace for 10,000 daily cases from next week as available beds in hospitals dry up. The city reported 9,108 cases on Sunday
No Covid vaccine in the world has marketing authorisation allowing sales in private market
Details of -25°C cold chain plan sought
"We expect to get the approval in the next few weeks," said Deepak Sapra, CEO, API and pharmaceutical services, Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL)
India now imports adjuvants and other chemicals for vaccine manufacturing
SII is committed to supplying 200 million doses to the collaboration