The sources said the Union Health Ministry and the office of Drugs Controller General of India had sought from both the firms their production plan for June, July, August and September.
Amid multiple states reporting a shortage of COVID-19 vaccine, Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech have submitted to the Centre their production plan for the next four months, informing they can ramp it up to 10 crore and 7.8 crore doses respectively by August, official sources said on Wednesday The sources said the Union Health Ministry and the office of Drugs Controller General of India had sought from both the firms their production plan for June, July, August and September. The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech s indigenously developed Covaxin and Oxford-AstraZeneca s Covishield, being manufactured by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India, are currently being used in India s inoculation drive against coronavirus.
Oxford-AstraZeneca s Covishield is being manufactured by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India.
New Delhi:
Amid multiple states reporting a shortage of COVID-19 vaccine, Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech have submitted to the Centre their production plan for the next four months, informing they can ramp it up to 10 crore and 7.8 crore doses respectively by August, official sources said on Wednesday.
The sources said the Union Health Ministry and the office of Drugs Controller General of India had sought from both the firms their production plan for June, July, August and September.
The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech s indigenously developed Covaxin and Oxford-AstraZeneca s Covishield, being manufactured by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India, are currently being used in India s inoculation drive against coronavirus.
May 5, 2021
In the past five days, 25 flights loaded with 300 tonnes of emergency Covid-19 relief supplies have landed in India’s capital from around the world. The supplies include 5,500 oxygen concentrators, 3,200 oxygen cylinders and 1,36,000 remdesivir injections, said a spokesperson of the Delhi International Airport Limited.
The emergency aid could save lives. But it seems not to have reached even those who are gasping for oxygen a few kilometers away.
“As far as I know, we have not received anything so far,” said Dr Nutan Mundeja, director general of health services, Delhi government.
Delhi, which has nearly 100,000 active Covid-19 cases and 20,000 patients in hospital, is facing a crippling shortage of oxygen. On May 1, 12 patients, including a doctor, died in Batra Hospital after it ran out of the life saving gas.