Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow other companies the right to manufacture the two Covid-19 vaccines administered in the country - Covishield and Covaxin. Kejriwal, in his letter, wrote the Indian government can do away with vaccine production monopoly using the patent law. It requires ramping up vaccine manufacturing at war footing,” said Kejriwal in a letter to Modi, a copy of which HT has seen. Important to increase vaccine production on war footing and frame national plan to vaccinate all," Kejriwal said at a press conference. Likewise, we should do the same in terms of vaccine manufacturing," he said further.

Source: Hindustan Times May 11, 2021 12:00 UTC