The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech Ltd is expected to submit the remaining documents by June and is confident about obtaining WHO's authorisation for EUL, sources said.
Final report of Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response highlights reasons behind global Covid surge and also gives suggestions on arresting the present crisis.
The health ministry dismissed 'unfounded' media reports that termed B.1.617 Covid variant as an 'Indian variant' — a strain that WHO recently said was 'of global concern'.
The new set of benchmarks have been based on local food environments and target processed and packaged foods in an effort to lower risks of blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
Scientists proposed specific steps on what any new probe should take into account, including ensuring that a team can undertake studies without 'unnecessary presence' of govts.
The B.1.617 variant of SARS-CoV-2, feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in the country, has been designated as the Variants of Interest (VOI) by the WHO.
In episode 714 of 'Cut The Clutter', Shekhar Gupta analyses the WHO report on the origins of the coronavirus, says this is a beginning but not the end of the investigations into the virus' genesis.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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