Coronavirus | Bharat Biotech to make 6 crore Covaxin doses by July
The Hindu
3 more facilities to produce Covaxin.
The production of indigenously developed Covaxin vaccine will be doubled by May-June and then increased nearly 6-7 fold by July-August 2021. Bharat Biotech makes 1 crore doses a month now. Production may reach nearly 10 crore doses a month by September, the Department of Biotechnology said on Friday. The DBT has funded three state-run facilities — the Haffkine Biopharmaceu- tical Corporation Ltd, Mumbai; Indian Immunologicals Limited, Hyderabad and Biologicals Limited, Bulandsh-ahr — to make vaccines. Haffkine has been given ₹65 crore but will will take anywhere between 6-12 months to be able to produce the vaccine; the other two facilities are expected to begin producing 10-15 million doses a month by August. The mainstay of increasing production will be Bharat Biotech which is in the process of scaling up its Bengaluru manufacturing facility.More Related News