The Centre has accorded a security cover of armed CISF commandos for the Hyderabad premises of Bharat Biotech, news agency PTI has reported. Bharat Biotech is one of the major Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers in the country producing Covaxin.
Officials told PTI that the registered office and plant of the company located at Genome Valley in Telangana's capital will be secured by a team of 64 armed personnel of the paramilitary force.
The Union home ministry recently sanctioned a proposal to deploy the Central Industrial Security Force at this facility, following which the force carried out a survey.
"The organisation is an important facility when it comes to ensuring medical and health security of the country and it obviously faces a terror threat from various inimical elements. The CISF, hence, has been tasked to secure the Bharat Biotech facility in Hyderabad," an official told PTI.