Kerala to setting up COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing unit

The Kerala state cabinet decided to establish a vaccine manufacturing unit in the state. The unit will be set up in the Bio 360 Life Sciences Park in Thonnakkal in Thiruvananthapuram district.

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The cabinet decided to appoint bureacrat Dr S Chithra as the project director of the vaccine production unit and Dr KP Sudheer, Principal Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, as Chairman.

New facility would work in tandem with the Institute of Advanced Virology under the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment.