Coronavirus inoculation drive: As India seeks to increase procurement, a look at upcoming vaccines in the country

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Hyderabad-based manufacturer Biological E has already received an advanced payment of Rs 1,500 crore from the Centre Coronavirus vaccines in India: When the country faced a shortage of vaccine supply last month, the government had said that it would procure more than 200 crore vaccine doses in the period between April and December this year. … Read more

Serum Institute to make 3 types of Covid-19 vaccines, hit 250 million doses a month by November

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Serum is making the Sputnik V dose, which happens to be the second dose, the other is the first dose. (Reuters image) Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), which has been the largest producer of vaccines in India, making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine Covishield – hopes to begin manufacture of two more vaccines – Corovax (made … Read more

Covid-19 Vaccine Diplomacy: India starts vaccine delivery to 6 countries, more to follow; will this impact domestic roll-out?

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The supplies of Covid vaccines to several countries will commence on Wednesday, and more will follow in the days ahead, PM Narendra Modi had tweeted on Tuesday. (ANI image) India has started sending Covid-19 vaccines to neighbouring countries to help them fight the prevalent Coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, India dispatched the first consignment of 1.5 … Read more