Bharat Biotech Friday announced cancellation of the MoU it signed with Precisa Medicamentos and Envixia Pharmaceuticals LL.C for its vaccine for the Brazilian market.
Brazil Tuesday suspended its deal with Bharat Biotech for 20 million Covaxin doses amid an ongoing investigation into alleged irregularities & corruption. ThePrint gives you the details.
Bharat Biotech's Covaxin contract to Brazil landed in controversy after the South American Attorney General reportedly launched a probe into the deal to purchase 20 million doses.
P.2 or B.1.1.28.2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, however, has so far had very less prevalence, with less than 0.5% of the viral samples detected worldwide showing this strain.
Pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro is mounting as lawmakers investigate his government’s response to a pandemic that’s taken the lives of nearly 400,000 Brazilians.
In the first wave of Covid, India was lauded for its low death rate. However, The Lancet had cautioned about the ‘dangers of false optimism’ in September.
It is obscene that a man so detached from India should occupy such a powerful position in a party that governed India for most of its republican history.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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