With an anticipated price point of less than Rs 150 per dose, this will be the first time an Indian company will be able to adopt the highly productive C1-cell protein production platform.
The partnership between India and the US in the healthcare sector is critical to vaccinating the world against the coronavirus, India’s Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu said. Observing that vaccinating the world must be the priority strategy against the Covid-19 pandemic, Sandhu on Tuesday said the world’s map of vaccinations presents a story of disparities with the
UN Chief blasts vaccine nationalism, hoarding, side deals
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March 12, 2021
Guterres reiterated his call for Covid-19 vaccines to be seen as “a global public good” The United Nations chief criticised the “many examples of vaccine nationalism and vaccine hoarding” as well as side deals with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers that undermine access to all people in the world. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement marking one year since the UN World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic that “the global vaccination campaign represents the greatest moral test of our times.” Ensuring that all people are vaccinated and “many low-income countries have not yet received a single dose” is essential to restart the global economy “and help the world move from locking down societies to locking down the virus,” he said.