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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 the Public Sector Undertaking facility even after it floated a tender for its Integrated Vaccine Co...

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 heartening indication that the media may perhaps be among the few institutions actually doing its job...

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 withdrawing OPV. The road ahead is bumpy, but with the important lessons learnt so far, India can no longer ...

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 closer look at this ‘ramping up’ shows just how skewed the approach is: five hospitals have bee...