Number of locations down from 120,000 to 60,000 from April 3 to 7
This comes after govt panel visits facilities of SII and Bharat Biotech
The expert panel of India's drug regulator, DCGI, has permitted Bharat Biotech to give a third dose of Covaxin to a few volunteers in its clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine, sources said
Covaxin has demonstrated an interim vaccine efficacy of 81 per cent in the Phase 3 clinical trials
Vaccine nationalism shows how the pandemic has stressed trade
India now imports adjuvants and other chemicals for vaccine manufacturing
The price paid by different governments for a vaccine dose - including for the same vaccine - varies across countries, Unicef data shows
SII, Bharat Biotech want to increase production to meet domestic, foreign demand
Bharat Biotech also has another site at Bengaluru that is currently making vaccines other than Covaxin
Vaccine makers asked to send more doses to central government on priority
Ravages of last year's lockdown may still affect economy
Nepal's national drug regulatory authority granted emergency use approval to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, becoming the third country to approve India's indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine
We must pull out all the stops to win the race against the virus. And trust each other to do the right thing
Covaxin was India's first indigenously developed vaccine to be approved, controversially under "clinical trial mode" in the first week of January
So far 1.9 million people in the country have been given Covaxin, of whom 311 showed some side effects
Saudi Aramco's $44-billion refinery project at Nanar in Ratnagiri has become a bone of contention between the Maharashtra government and the Centre
Expert panel recommends emergency use authorisation
Probability of side effects from vaccine 10-12%, 6x lower than other shots
Almost 21 million shots have been administered in India so far, up from 5.4 million a month ago
UK Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi has defended a shipment of 10 million doses of Covishield en route from India amid some concerns that it would impact supplies of poorer nations