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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
DMK MP P. Wilson has requested Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to take steps to utilise the three vaccine centres in Tamil Nadu for production of Covishield/ Covaxin. In a letter, he said the thr
Expedite work at Chengalpattu vaccine facility, Anbumani tells Harsh Vardhan
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COVID-19 vaccines can be produced from the facility, says PMK leader
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COVID-19 vaccines can be produced from the facility, says PMK leader
PMK leader and Rajya Sabha member Anbumani Ramadoss has urged Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to immediately make the Integrated Vaccine Complex at Chengalpattu functional so that COVID-19 vaccines can be produced from the facility.
In a letter, Dr. Ramadoss said he had already written to the Minister in October 2019 regarding expediting the completion works of the complex. “The works at this complex are nearly complete. It is possible to complete the remaining work and start producing vaccines as per WHO pre-qualification norm which is the international standard,” he said.