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TN-based HLL Biotech facilities not used for vaccine manufacturing
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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 the Public Sector Undertaking facility even after it floated a tender for its Integrated Vaccine Complex (IVC) to manufacture vaccines.
HLL Biotech has an annual capacity of 585 million vaccine doses and was intended to make vaccines under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) of the Indian Government. The company was formed to produce an uninterrupted supply of vaccines under the UIP. It has the state-of-the-art multi-bacterial and multi-viral facilities to meet any epidemic or p
Process is set to be completed by the first week of May
The Public Works Department has accelerated work to provide oxygen pipelines for nearly 12,770 additional COVID-19 beds being created across the State.
The project is expected to address the increasing demand for healthcare facilities to cope with the second wave of the infection.
Work to provide nearly 3,000 additional beds with oxygen lines has been completed. Most have been immediately put to use. The department plans to complete the entire project by the first week of May to provide vital infrastructure for patients in need of oxygen support.
PWD officials said additional facilities were being created at 168 hospitals, including district headquarters and taluk hospitals and government medical college hospitals as emergency works.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras here has been hit by the coronavirus outbreak with over 100 people, a majority of them students, testing positive for the contagion, a top health official said on Monday.
A total of 104 students and others have contracted the disease and all were doing well in a hospital, Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan said, allaying fears of further spread.
Of the 444 samples lifted till date, 104 have tested positive for Covid-19, he said, adding from December 1 to 12, samples from the institute turning positive steadily increased from a few to 33 specimens today. All of them are being treated at the Kings Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research as per the directive of Chief Minister K Palaniswami and they are all doing well, he told reporters here.