4 more Covid-19 vaccines on cards in India. Who are these vaccine candidates and their status
4 more Covid-19 vaccines on cards in India. Who are these vaccine candidates and their status
Top health official on Tuesday said four more vaccines against coronavirus are in pipeline for India. The health secretary said four Covid-19 vaccines, one by Zydus Cadila, Russian vaccine Sputnik V, Biological E, and Gennova, are in advanced clinical trials in India.
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UPDATED: January 13, 2021 08:35 IST
In the coming days, India may see some of these vaccines approaching the drug controller for emergency use authorisation, the health secretary said.
While Serum Institute of India’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s indigenous Covaxin are the two vaccines against Covid-19 that will drive the countries vaccination programme in the first phase of inoculation, the Centre has that the country is looking at four more vaccines in the pipeline.
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Show Captions p The first consignment of Covaxin developed by Bharat Biotech is being carried via flight from Hyderabad to Delhi on Wednesday, officials informed. /p p The official said, The first consignment of vaccine from Bharat Biotech is being carried by Air India on AI 559 from Hyderabad to Delhi on Wednesday at 0640 hours. (ANI) /p p Covishield and Covaxin, the two Covid-19 vaccines which have received Emergency Use Authorisation (EAU) have been tested on thousands of people and side-effects are negligible, Dr VK Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, said. /p p The first phase of the Covid-19 vaccination drive is scheduled to start from January 16. /p
The Health Ministry hinted on Tuesday that for now, the COVID-19 vaccine recipients will not have the option to choose from the two vaccines recently approved
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