Speaking to Karan Thapar, the TMC MP from Krishnanagar says the Mamata Banerjee government did not put undue pressure on Modi, but that he was acting of his own accord when it came to vaccination.
Read more about Worse than Covid : Threat of pandemics spurs race for vaccines in 100 days on Business Standard. Researchers and governments want to smash vaccine development records, harnessing technologies such as messenger RNA.
USFDA last month came out with a revised guideline for covid vaccine approval that said it will no longer grant emergency authorization to new applications. In some countries, people vaccinated with both the doses of Covaxin have been treated as unvaccinated.