How India's regulatory pitfalls helped Covishield and Covaxin get rapid approval
Text Size: A+ The year 2021 in India began with a flurry of events around the Covid-19 vaccine. The Indian government conducted dry runs for the vaccines, and two vaccines Covishield (Oxford University-AstraZeneca) and Covaxin (Bharat Biotech) were granted accelerated regulatory approval by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). The process of granting these vaccines regulatory approval has been a subject of intense scrutiny. The grant of these approvals and the scrutiny involved in the process has been marred with several concerns as these vaccines are yet to complete ...