The apex health research body said the National Institute of Virology has also demonstrated the neutralisation potential of Covaxin against the UK and Brazil variants.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan also said that the manufacture of remdesivir jabs, an anti-viral drug against Covid, will be doubled to 74.1 lakh per month by May.
Plan to increase Covaxin production being overseen by 6-member inter-ministerial panel appointed to augment vaccine manufacturing as Covid cases see a second wave in India.
Decision to allow Covaxin to exit the clinical trial mode means the vaccine can be administered with less stringent conditions and could result in a higher intake.
The recommendations were made after analysis of interim data of the phase-3 clinical trial of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin's showed the efficacy of the vaccine to be 80.6%.
An expert group of WHO may have advocated for the continued use of blinded placebo-controlled studies for ‘reliable evidence’, but scientific community thinks otherwise.
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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