Vax for 12-14 yr-olds: Parents say apt move ahead of school reopening

Parents in the national capital heaved a sigh of relief with the government's announcement that COVID vaccination for children in the age group of 12-14 years will begin from Wednesday and said......

Padma Bhushan for Indian vaccine makers

Founders of indigenous COVID-19 vaccine developer Bharat Biotech -- Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella, along with Cyrus Poonawalla, the chairman and MD of another vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute......

Bharat Biotech plans to supply 90 million Covaxin doses a month by Dec

Bharat Biotech is targeting one billion doses in annual production. This is from its own sites alone, reports Sohini Das. India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine to be approved, Bharat......

Meeting 1.35 bn vax dose target in Aug-Dec a long haul

While Covishield supplies would meet the target of 500 mn doses between August and December, it looks like Covaxin would miss the target of 400 mn unless the partner sites of Bharat Biotech ramp up......

Bill Gates visits Hyderabad-based vaccine maker

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates visited Biological E Ltd, a city-based vaccine manufacturer, late in the evening on Thursday.Gates who is also Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,......

Why Bellary is to bleed again

It’s sleepless nights again for the residents of Kamtur village. Located on the fringes of the Kumaraswamy forest range, one of the six iron ore-bearing mountaintops in Karnataka’s......

Making of India's genome valley

When the Andhra Pradesh government identified biotechnology as one of the engines of economic growth for the state, it came as a surprise for many. After all, Shantha Biotech and Bharat Biotech......

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