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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.
Quantum of doses to be exported not known
Drug major clarifies it could not present itself before the SEC because of short notice and time zone issues
Serum to supply 11 mn doses at Rs 200 each initially
According to sources, a contract may be signed between the government and the vaccine makers on Monday, and the first batch of vaccinations will be done using Serum Institute's (SII's) Covishield
Write to PM and health minister, call for an independent inquiry
Analysts expect earnings growth to be in the range of 30-40 per cent for drug firms owing to both domestic recovery as well as strong export opportunities
To the media, Somani may be a man of few words but among peers he's known for quick responses
The government is in the final stages of due diligence to ink a supply deal with Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech, which have got approval for emergency use of their vaccines
Serum Institute already has two deals of 100 million each to supply the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Novavax vaccine to Gavi-Covax at $3 per dose
Government has asked airlines to get ready to transport 30 tonnes of vaccines immediately
More than 5,000 people have been given both shots of the vaccine; efficacy data around March
The final contract is expected to be signed soon
Clocks 8.5% growth in December, up sharply from November's 1% due to revival in volume growth
Bharat Biotech is currently working on two intra-nasal vaccines
Adar Poonawalla and Krishna Ella issue joint statement saying they would work together to roll out Covid-19 vaccine
Minutes of expert panel meeting made public
Krishna Ella turns the tables on critics, questions approval granted to Oxford-Astra vaccine
MRP for private market Rs 1,000/ dose; current licence does not allow export or sale in private market
It took a chance by ramping up capacity on vaccines when they were yet to be approved and is set to emerge a global winner
Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is based on a whole inactivated virus platform, an old technology which is used to make vaccines given to infants