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The additional rate will apply to 54 drugs it has to procure. The anti-rabies vaccine is costing 74 percent more.
India had reported 7,830 coronavirus infections on Wednesday.
Adar Poonawalla has said the company has six million booster doses of Covovax vaccine available.
Martin Schalling is a professor of Medical Genetics, at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
While the equine rabies immunoglobulin (ERIG) is administered for deep wounds, intradermal rabies vaccine (IDRV) is given for minor injuries. What makes the situation grave in Kerala is that it is the ERIG which is unavailable even in medical college hospitals.
Of the 14 deaths, 3 were from Maharashtra, 2 each from Karnataka and Rajasthan, 1 each from Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, and 1 was reconciled by Kerala.
The antibodies that had worked so well against the original strain proved less effective at recognising and neutralising emerging variants, leading to breakthrough infections.
The death toll has increased to 5,30,929 with 13 deaths -- two each reported from Karnataka and Maharashtra, one each from Kerala and Punjab, and seven reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases now comprise 0.05 per cent of the total infections and the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 6.12 while the weekly positivity was pegged at 2.45 per cent.