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MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday raised a demand with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow the state to manufacture the indegious vaccine, Covaxin developed by Bharat Biotech at Mumbai s Haffkine Institute.
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray raised the issue in the PM s Covid19 review meet on Wednesday. Thackeray sought for a technology transfer under the Mission Covid security from Bharat biotech to Haffkine Biopharmaceutical Corporation limited one of the country s oldest and premier biomedical research facilities. If the technology transfer happens, either vaccine can be produced at Haffkine or they can work on a fill and finish arrangement. Nearly 126 million doses can be manufactured at the Haffkine facility, said Thackeray.
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