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  9 May 2021: - Government in Supreme court An advance payment of Rs. 787.50 crores was released to Bharat Biotech India Ltd (BBIL) for 05 crore Covaxin doses for the months of May, June, and July. Whereby, it is expected that the current manufacturing of Covaxin of 10 million doses/ month will be enhanced to nearly 100 million doses/ month in the next 8-10 months. After a week …   13 May 2021: - Government to Media VK Paul claims that government will get 55 crore Covaxin between the month of the August to December 2021, that means Bharat biotech will have the capacity to produce 11Cr dose/month. ( Yes, there was/is talk to give covaxin licence to the PSUs to produce vaccine but yet there is no evident development or outcome regarding that yet. So, yet the all burden of the covaxin production is on Bharat Biotech. ) After 2 Weeks... 29 May 2021: - Health Ministry to media Health Ministry said: "The production capacity of Covaxin will be doubled by May-June and then i...

  Tulsi Virani is now Cabinet minister Smruti Irani. But what her government doing with the vaccination data suits the theme song of her TV series Kyuki saas bhi Kabhi bahu thi. Here is it : Here is the headline of the 14th May:- But As per the Affidavit submitted by the Union government to the supreme court on 26th June, Government will need 135 crores of vaccine doses for the Month of August to December.  The following two pictures show that how data has been changed from 13th May to 26th June:- 13th May  26th June  As you can note that the number of vaccine suppliers has been reduced to 5 from 8 on the 13th May. BB Nasal and Genova have been removed. The Reason is that their trials are still in 1st phase. VK Paul ( Head of Vaccine task force) and Prakash Javdekar ( I&B) minister both were aware of this reality. Even though they gave fake hope to the citizen during the 2nd week of May.  I Mention the same in my   Blogpost dated 14th May , Just a...

  Vaccination biggest weapon in fight against COVID-19: PM Modi The Prime Minister, while interacting with doctors across the country through video conferencing on the COVID-19 issue and vaccination progress, appreciated the doctors, medical and para-medical staff for their invaluable service towards the country during the coronavirus pandemic. economictimes.indiatimes.com As per PM Modi, Vaccine and transparency both are key weapons to fight the pandemic. But his own government remains opaque on the vaccine governance. Here is how. RTI Application by Me RTI Reply by ministry Interestingly the information sought to be me is the same which is shared by the VK paul ( NITI Member and Head of vaccine task force) in Media. Here is it 18 May, Indian Express "We have contacted the manufacturers and sought information on availability of vaccine for August-December… In this period, 216 crore doses would become available in India." VK paul 27 May Livemint "The central government ...

  BBC Following two are the paragraphs of the AFFIDAVIT DATED 09.05.2021 ON BEHALF OF THE UNION OF INDIA to the supreme court. Paragraph 30 - “Bharat Biotech Intl Ltd. Has increased production from 90 lakhs/ month to 2 crore doses/ month and further increase is expected up to 5.5 crore doses/month by July 2021” Paragraph 35 - “It is expected that the current manufacturing of Covaxin of 10 million doses/ month will be enhanced to nearly 100 million doses/ month in the next 8-10 months.” Here I would like to point out two things to readers. The first is, 10million means 1 crore. Secondly Bharat Biotech (BB) manufactures Covaxin. So, basically, the government has said two different things in two paragraphs. Furthermore, VK Paul the chief of the covid task force on the vaccine projected to procure 55 crore doses of the covaxin by December 2021. Now let me analyze this number game. Let goes with the government numbers. In the best possible scenario, Bharat biotech may/will pro...

“We have contacted manufacturers and sought information on the availability of vaccine for August-December… In this period, 216 crore doses would become available in India. The vaccine will be made available for all as we move forward…,”  - Dr. V K Paul, head of India’s Covid-19 Task Force  Here is the plan of the government to vaccinate Indians. PIB Government of India Now, Here are some questions to the VK Paul who is also a member of the NITI Aayog. 1. The figure of the 216 crore doses by December seems attractive for the headlines, but the question is, all 8 vaccines cleared the Safety and other trials?  The Indian Express has Answer and here it is.  Indian Express 2.  Can SII and Bharat Biotech have the capacity to make the number of doses projected by the VK Paul? As per the VK paul, the government will procure 55 crore doses of the Covaxin by December. Let consider a procurement period of 6 months, 180 days. This means, Bharat Biotech has to produce 30 l...