Once the company gets permission, it will have to conduct clinical trials and if successful, the Serum Institute will become the seventh company to manufacture Sputnik V
The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has done away with specific trials of COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved by other international regulatory bodies - a big move likely to clear the way for foreign vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna for the country s urgent requirement.
The RDIF has signed agreements with several companies to manufacture Sputnik V in India — Virchow Biotech (up to 200 million doses per year) Gland Pharma (252 million doses) and Stelis Biopharma (200 million doses).
Zydus is the only Indian company which claims to have developed a neutralising monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) based cocktail for the treatment of COVID 19