INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: A quickly planned rollout of Covaxin, a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the city-based Bharat Biotech, was on Monday equally
quickly pulled back without any explanation by the State health department authorities
vaccination on January 16 in Telangana began with people getting jabs of Covishield vaccine, manufactured by the Pune-based Serum Institute
the Director of Public Health at Koti in the afternoon
The guests of honour were to be health minister Etala Rajendar and IT and industries minister K.T
Rama Rao.While the invite did not mention Covaxin being rolled out, it is self-evident this was the agenda as Covishield had already been
rolled-out and was being used across the state for vaccination of healthcare personnel.However, within an hour, the health department
sources, one of the possible recipients of the first dose of Covaxin was to be Director of Public Health Dr G
It may be recalled that Director of Medical Educations Dr K
part of several healthcare personnel to become part of a somewhat forced Phase III trial of a vaccine which had only an Emergency Use
consent form, agreeing to be part of the trial and that they are doing so on their own accord and not under any duress from any quarter.It
This, it was learnt, was causing concern among potential recipients of this particular vaccine among some healthcare personnel in the
It was learnt that the TRS government did not want the embarrassment of several potential recipients pulling out from taking the vaccine
manufactured by a company based in Telangana.However, there was no official word from Bharat Biotech throughout the day either on the
