ICMR chief Dr Balram Bargava says teachers should be the first to be vaccinated. He also says India will assist any country that wants to use CoWIN app for their vaccination programme.
Officials say India 'will not be in a rush', and Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka will get ‘priority’ after domestic demand for the Covid vaccines is fulfilled.
Even as vaccine makers have clarified that pork products are not part of the vaccines, pork-derived gelatin is known to be used as stabilisers for safe storage and transportation.
The joint statement comes after Bharat Biotech MD Dr Krishna Ella hit out at Serum CEO Adar Poonawalla’s comment that only Pfizer, Moderna, Oxford vaccines were effective.
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India, says the govt restrictions ‘will be eased out very soon once the most vulnerable population starts getting vaccinated’.
Delhi Covid taskforce member Dr Suneela Garg tells ThePrint about the vaccine roll out plan in the national capital, who can register and how the process will work.
The Modi govt must not damage India’s competitive advantage in vaccines & pharmaceuticals through absurd benchmarks that will not be trusted by other countries.
The CoWIN app is not yet public, but has utilities for every level of user — from civil servants to public health system managers, vaccinators, and potential beneficiaries.
Bharat Biotech MD Dr Krishna Ella says they gave ‘excellent safety data tested on around 25,000 participants’ & their efficacy data will be available by February-March.
The most geopolitically consequential dimension is Donald Trump’s attempt to anchor a US-Russia reset into this peace package. This includes diplomatic and economic ties.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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