Bharat Biotech Hyderabad campus receives CISF security cover
New Delhi: The Centre has accorded a security cover of armed CISF commandos for the Hyderabad premises of Bharat Biotech, one of the major COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers in the country, official sources said on Tuesday.
They said the registered office and plant of the company located at Genome Valley in the Shameerpet area of Telangana''s capital city will be secured by a team of 64 armed personnel of the paramilitary force.
The sources said the Union home ministry recently sanctioned a proposal to deploy the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) 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 said.
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