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Amid vaccine shortage, this manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu is lying idle for 9 years If functional, the IVC has the capacity to produce one billion vaccines annually. This means it can cater to a large part of the demand of Tamil Nadu as well as the rest of the country Akshaya Nath | May 28, 2021 | Updated 14:19 IST IVC was set up by HLL Biotech and is under the Union Health Ministry. (Representational image) Centres state-of-the-art public sector vaccine manufacturing plant, Integrated Vac...

Public sector production units need to be used efficiently, with help from the private sector.

Once the Covid-19 vaccine is ready, the next big challenge with be the distribution and transport of these vaccines

Read more about I didnt destroy Indias self-sufficiency in vaccine production: Ramadoss on Business Standard. The Union health minister in the first term of the UPA government, Anbumani Ramadoss clarifies he did not close down govt-run vaccine manufacturing units

State told to file statement regarding number of vaccines received

TN-based HLL Biotech facilities not used for vaccine manufacturing ​ By IANS | ​ 4 Views TN-based HLL Biotech facilities not used for vaccine manufacturing. Image Source: IANS News Chennai, May 12 : HLL Biotech at Chengalpet in Tamil Nadu, a sprawling 100-acre campus located 55 km from Chennai, is equipped with all modern facilities and has state-of-the-art technology to manufacture vaccines but was not used during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were not many takers to use...

You can’t have two companies holding the country to ransom, says the professor at the Department of Community Health, CMC, Vellore

Institutional collapse Bureaucracy must be held to account in India’s Covid surge It is the opinion of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that the media’s job during the Covid-19 pandemic should be to create an atmosphere of “positivity, hope and trust”. Idealistic beginners in journalism schools will hopefully interpret that as the exact opposite of what their job actually entails. But the cautionary overtones in the statement from the ruling party’s ideological patriarch are a h...

Overcoming formidable biological and sociocultural barriers, India eliminated wild polioviruses from its territory in January 2011. Looking back, it is obvious that the best policy would have been to introduce the inactivated poliovirus vaccine to prevent polio in every vaccinated child, and to use oral poliovirus vaccine by pulse campaigns to eliminate WPVs rapidly. This would have eliminated polio decades ago. Now that WPVs have been eliminated, IPV must be introduced as a prelude to withdraw...

Vaccine awareness needs to go far beyond people like us Photo: AFPPremium Radha Khan Share Via A news item in the The Indian Express caught my eye last week. It reported that in Gurugram, Haryana (where I live), the local district authorities are worried by an uptick in the number of covid cases and are planning to intensify and ramp up the government’s ongoing vaccination drive. The aim, according to the report, is to increase the number of hospitals administering covid vaccines. However, a...