Astra vaccine accounts for more than 40% of supplies going to low- and middle-income nations
Sources close to the development said the expert committee sought more information from Serum Institute regarding the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
The government has today accepted the recommendation to authorise Oxford University/AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine for use, the health ministry said
SII has stockpiled 40-50 mn doses and is adding more every week. Most of these will come to India, as exporting would require fulfilling WHO's pre-qualification procedures
The coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca should be effective against the highly transmissible new strain of the virus, the report said
The process of granting emergency use approval for Bharat Biotech''s COVID-19 vaccine ''Covaxin'' may take time as its phase 3 trials are still underway, while Pfizer is yet to make a presentation
This could be the first country to give the regulatory green light for the British drugmaker's vaccine as the British medicine regulator continues to examine data from the trials
Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Pune-based firm, said on Friday Serum was seeking approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for the two-full dose regimen
AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective at preventing symptomatic infection and it protects against severe disease and hospitalisation, a study concluded
According to the ICMR, the SII has already manufactured 40 million doses of the vaccine under the at-risk manufacturing and stockpiling license it obtained from the DCGI
The discrepancy, reported for the first time by Reuters, centres on the regimen administered to a smaller group of volunteers in the late-stage trials, of half a dose followed by a full dose
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Serum Institute of India said the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University is safe and effective, and the Indian trials are progressing smoothly
The announcement comes as other countries in the region like the Philippines prepare to sign similar deals with AstraZeneca
Oxford said a difference in manufacturing processes led to later phases of the trials having a half-dose given instead of a full one
"The reason we had the half-dose is serendipity," Mene Pangalos, the head of AstraZeneca's non-oncology research and development, told Reuters
Data from global trials to be submitted to the Indian regulator by the end of December
Poonawalla said the company will be able to produce 400 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine by July 2021 and scale up further from there
Pollard said there is no competition between the various research teams, because several vaccines will be needed to bring the global pandemic under control and allow life to return to normal