Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy on July 3 confirmed that the union govemnt has rolled out funds from the PM CARES for setting up a vaccine-testing laboratory in Hyderabad.

Taking in a Twitter, the Lok Sabha member from Secunderabad Mr. Reddy tweeted: "I thank Honble PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji for sanctioning funds for setting up of Vaccine Testing Lab at Hyderabad. A  big step towards comprehensive development of pharma sector in Hyderabad, which will also boost production of COVID-9 vaccines."    The extensive focus  on ramping up  vaccine production to take control on the widespread   COVID-19 pandemic validates the requirement of more vaccine- testing laboratories in the country, Reddy said in a press release.

At present, there are two vaccine-testing laboratories in the country -- the Central Drug Laboratory at Kasauli and the National Institute of Biologicals at Noida, he said.

Funds have been released from the PM CARES Fund on March 6 for establishing two more such laboratories -- one at National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, and the other at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, under the Department of Biotechnology, he said.

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