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Centre has to think out-of-the-box to increase vaccine supplies. Global tenders by States may not work
Over the last one week, several States have put out global tenders for vaccine supplies with Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh being the trail blazers. On Tuesday, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had to extend the deadline for the tender it put out on May 12 by another week due to lack of response. This is not surprising and should have been evident even before the tender was floated. The simple fact is that there is no spare vaccine capacity available with any of the producers across the world. The capacities of Pfizer and Moderna have been booked for the coming several months by the Western nations while Russia which produces the Sputnik is facing constraints in its own production which is why it has tied up with a laundry list of Indian pharma companies to produce the vaccine. With China being kept out of the tender by some of these States, there
TN-based HLL Biotech facilities not used for vaccine manufacturing
By IANS |
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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
A Smear Campaign Against Private Sector Is The Last Thing India Needs Right Now; But Guess What Rahul Gandhi And Friends Are Upto?
by Tushar Gupta - Apr 29, 2021 01:04 PM
Covid-19 Vaccination Drive
Snapshot
Itâs about vaccines today, it will be about 5G and artificial intelligence tomorrow, and it will be about a $5 trillion economy in the future.
All these pursuits are incomplete without private sector participation. Itâs time to stop hating âMade and Make in Indiaâ.
India is a country that witnessed an escalation in the manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) from an absolute zero to a daily average of 150,000 in May last year, at the peak of a nationwide lockdown.
Coimbatore: Tirupur MP K Subbarayan has blamed the Union government for shortage of Covid vaccines and oxygen.
“On Wednesday, 24 people in Nashik died without oxygen and 2.95 lakh people tested positive in the country,” Subbarayan’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. “Cases in Tamil Nadu are increasing rapidly and so is the demand for oxygen. At this juncture, the Centre, without the state government’s permission, diverted 45 metric tonnes of oxygen from Tamil Nadu to Andhra Pradesh and Telengana,” he said.
Calling out the acute vaccine shortage in districts, the MP said he had gone for his second dose only to be refused and asked to come back the next day. “It is the central and state governments’ responsibility to ensure we have enough stock of medicines, oxygen and vaccines. Instead of encouraging private companies, they should have encouraged the Pasteur Institute of India and King Institute in Chennai to manufacture vaccines.”