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MS University has become a partner institute in the Study in India (sii) programme, the flagship project introduced by the Union education ministry.

Bombay high court on Thursday sought the central government’s response to the issue of unused vaccine vials even as Serum Institute of India (sii) said it does not have a buyback policy and cannot extend the expiry date of Covishield vials.

Bombay high court on Thursday refused to restrain two men from posting online defamatory content against Serum Institute of India (sii), manufacturer of the Covishield vaccine.

Serum Institute of India (sii) CEO Adar Poonawalla on Saturday said they were in the process of applying for an emergency use licence (for AstraZeneca-Oxford’s Covid vaccine in India) in the “next two weeks”.

Bombay high court on Thursday sought the Central government's response on the issue of unused vaccine vials even as Serum Institute of India (sii) said it does not have a buyback policy and cannot extend the expiry date of Covishield vials.

The Pune city police will provide security cover to Serum Institute of India’s (sii) vehicles transporting Covid-19 vaccine from their Hadapsar facility to the Lohegaon airport, Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said on Sunday. Batches of the vaccine will be flown to destinations across the nation from the Lohegaon airport.

The process of transporting Covishield vaccine began on Monday after the Serum Institute of India (sii) received the Centre’s initial purchase order for 11 million doses at Rs 200 per dose. This makes the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine, which is being manufactured by sii, the first Covid-19 vaccine to be used for India’s mass immunization programme.

Bombay high court on Thursday directed Serum Institute of India (sii) to inform if it has a policy to buy back surplus Covishield vaccine vials.

The drug regulator has asked Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India (sii), which have sought emergency use authorisation (EUA) for their anti-Covid vaccines, to submit updated safety and immunogenicity data from Phase-3 trials being held in India, official sources said.

The Bombay high court on Friday directed that Serum Institute of India (sii) be joined as a party to the petition by a Nalasopara-based private hospital, which has surplus near-expiry Covishield vaccine vials, to know if it has a buyback policy.

The Bombay high court on Monday said content posted by two individuals and their organisations against vaccine manufacturing major Serum Institute of India (sii) was "prima facie defamatory" and directed them to delete it. A single bench of Justice R I Chagla also temporarily restrained them from posting any content against the company.

Serum Institute of India (sii) has launched efforts to manufacture an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, which will be ready by end of November for humans trials in Uganda.

India will initially get most of the 40-50 million ‘Covishield’ vaccine shots stockpiled by the Serum Institute of India (sii), since exports would require the World Health Organisation’s pre-qualification, which is likely to take around a month after regulatory approval.

An expert panel of the country's central drug authority on Wednesday recommended against granting permission to the Serum Institute of India (sii) to conduct the phase 2/3 trial of Covid-19 vaccine Covovax on children aged two to 17 years, sources said.

Serum Institute of India (sii) will start production of Sputnik vaccine at the company's facilities in September, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Tuesday. "The first batch of Sputnik vaccine is expected to be produced at sii's facilities in September," RDIF said in a statement.

The government has permitted Serum Institute of India (sii) to export 10 lakh Covishield doses each to Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh, while Bharat Biotech will provide Iran with 10 lakh doses of Covaxin under the 'Vaccine Maitri' programme in October, official sources said on Thursday.