All people of the country will be given Covid vaccine for free, Union Minister Pratap Sarangi announced on Sunday
The first vaccine candidate will be an intra-muscular one, followed by intra-dermal and nasal ones, depending on test results.
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The around 28,500 people expected to enrol for the Phase-III trials would be given two doses of the investigational vaccine
In a statement published on its website, the panel said it recommended granting the approval after studying the firm's Phase I and II data along with 'animal challenge data in two species'
For phase-2 studies, the firm is also testing the vaccine on children above 12 years of age. In phase-1, they only tested adults.
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Bharat Biotech, which had sought DCGI's nod for conducting phase-3 clinical trials of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, has been asked to submit complete data of the ongoing phase-2 trial
Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Serum Institute of India (SII), said the biotechnology company has already put in place an expansion plan for new products in the pipeline
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Bharat Biotech on Wednesday announced a licensing agreement with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for a novel chimp-adenovirus, single dose intranasal vaccine for Covid-19
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has informed that it has received information about one Covid-19 vaccine developed and approved in Russia
India took six months to reach the first million covid cases and it has gone from four to 4.9 million in 11 days
The results showed protective efficacacy, increasing Sars-CoV-2 specific IgG and neutralising antibodies reducing the replication of the virus in the nasal cavity, throat and lung tissues of monkey
Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao said his government was ensuring that Telangana, as the home state, gets priority in supply of Covid-19 vaccine as and when it is manufactured by Bharat Biotech
Post Graduate Institute (PGI) Rohtak will start the phase-2 human clinical trial of Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine
These trials of the BBV152 coronavirus vaccine or Covaxin will be conducted on 380 participants, who will have to be screened for four days after they receive the vaccine shots