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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.
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
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