Today, SII sells about 1.5 billion vaccine doses every year to 170 countries and is the largest producer of vaccines globally by number of doses
US giant Pfizer did not come to present its case on Friday before the Subject Expert Committee
The Serum Institute of India (SII), the local maker of the vaccine called Covishield, has stockpiled about 50 million doses of the vaccine, enough for 25 million people, said its CEO last week
V G Somani's statement comes even as subject expert committee is set to meet on Jan 1 to consider three emergency-use authorisation applications
Sources close to the development said the expert committee sought more information from Serum Institute regarding the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
India is also considering emergency-use authorisation applications for vaccines made by Pfizer Inc with Germany's BioNTech, and by India's Bharat Biotech
SII, the world's biggest producer of vaccines, has already stockpiled about 50 million doses, enough for 25 million people
SII termed the approval for Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in the UK as encouraging news
The development came after the UK became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan On Monday inaugurated India's first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine "Pneumosil", which has been developed by the Serum Institute of India
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
Pneumosil was found to be safe and effective in the prevention of pneumonia and based on which Pneumosil has been licensed by the Drugs Controller General of India in July 2020
Serum Institute of India announced the launch of India's first indigenously developed pneumococcal vaccine -- Pneumosil
In an e-mail interview with Sohini Das, Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer, Serum Institute of India, says the firm is not raising additional capital through private equity
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Pfizer yet to submit data to regulator while Serum Institute has provided all additional information for emergency use authorisation
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
Serum Institute of India said that the country would require a massive funding of Rs 80,000 crore for distribution of the Covid vaccine for the next one year
Global vaccine partnership COVAX has lined up almost two billion doses of existing and candidate Covid-19 vaccines for use worldwide
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