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1/4. The #Haffkine Institute in Mumbai was recently given the go-ahead to manufacture a Covid vaccine, but did you know that the man after whom the institute is named, and

While we are amidst this global Covid-19 pandemic, important to remember the great Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine. Yesterday was his 90th death anniversary.Haffkine was a bacteriologist from Ukraine (then

Ananth Krishna Subhalakshmy

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A thread on compulsory licensing:Covaxin Intellectual Property is the only "Indian" IP with approval as of now. Covishield is the IP of AstraZeneca sub-licensed by SII. AstraZeneca is British-Swedish company

I love how people on Twitter are deciding, with patently false data, on how much profit a company should make.I am pretty sure they would also be OK with the

A thread on Bharat Biotech's (BB) pricing of Covaxin at Rs 600/dose for State governments and Rs 1200/dose for private hospitals. The pricing of Covaxin at prices higher than Covishield

Aanchal Malhotra

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My piece today in @Mint_Lounge on the 1897 bubonic plague and a great-great grandfather, Deputy Inspector Bidhi Chand, who found himself on Plague Duty in the Punjab. A threadhttps://bit.ly/2Sby0vo On

@SerumInstIndia and @BharatBiotech recently released new Covid-19 vaccine prices. Enrolment for 18+ begins today. Are they profiteering ? This thread covers their production effort, scaling and some other factors. Starting