Hyderabad/New Delhi, Jul 3: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy Today said that the third Vaccine Testing Lab will be set up here.

Talking to the media in New Delhi, Mr. Reddy said that the country has only two vaccine testing Labs.

The third vaccine testing lab will be set up at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology here under the Department of Biotechnology with PM CARES fund.

Mr. Reddy said it will be a boon to the city which is a Centre for Pharma Research.

The Minister taking to micro-blogging site Twitter said ‘I thank Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi Ji for sanctioning funds for setting up of Vaccine Testing Lab at Hyderabad from #PMCares Fund.

A big step forward towards comprehensive development of pharma sector in #Hyderabad, which will also boost production of #Covid-19 vaccines,’ he added. (UNI)