Pasteur Institute to supply vaccines for country’s immunisation programme from 2023, Union Health Minister says
The Hindu
The Minister was responding to a letter sent by Rajya Sabha MP, P. Wilson, seeking the production of COVID-19 vaccines at the facility
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Mansukh Mandaviya, has said that the Pasteur Institute of India (PII) in Coonoor will be able to supply vaccines for the country’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) by the first half of 2023.
In a letter sent earlier this week in response to Rajya Sabha MP P. Wilson’s letter seeking the production of Covishield and Covaxin vaccines at PII, the Integrated Vaccine Complex (ICV) at Chengalpattu and the King Institute in Chennai, the Minister said that there were no bidders for manufacturing vaccines at the ICV.
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