Dr Gilada shares a leaf from the institutional memory: ICMR is not new to such controversies. During late 1980s ICMR DG Dr.A.S. Paintal had fallen from grace due to his controversial views on some health problems like - advocating a law to ban Indians from having sex with foreigners in order to curtail the spread of AIDS and championing the pill as the best contraceptive for population control.
Dr Gilada said that "it is expected that the ICMR Director General will file a sworn affidavit with action plans including the COVID-19 vaccine before the Honourable Supreme Court when our application is scheduled to be heard in the Suo Motu Writ Petition on 20th July 2020."
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