The SII will commence Covid vaccine export under the COVAX programme from 23 November. Nepal, Tajikistan, Mozambique and Bangladesh are the 4 nations that will receive the doses.
SII's Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs is learnt to have recently communicated to Union Health Ministry that it has a manufactured stock of 24,89,15,000 Covishield doses.
Even as oral Covid pills from Merck, Pfizer are being seen as game changers, generic drugmakers are getting a reality check that there may not be too much money on the table.
Data shows Kiphire, that shares a border with Myanmar, has just 16% of its population covered by first Covid vaccine dose. Kiphire has an estimated population of just over 74,000.
Govt is in communication with the rest of the world so that people vaccinated in India are accepted, thereby easing travel for education, business & tourism, Mandaviya said.
According to Dr Subhash Salunkhe, one reason for increasing Covishield dose gap was vaccine shortfall, says ‘there should be more latitude in this now that situation has eased’.
Until now, units operating even in recognised industrial areas needed a separate factory licence. The move is expected to especially give a boost to small and medium enterprises.
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