Vaccine drive against Covid-19 starts in IndiaSHRIVASTAVA, JYOTI PRIYADARSHININational Medical Journal of India
In August, the government of India granted Emergency Use Authorization to a COVID-19 DNA vaccine. Pharmaceutical firm Zydus Cadila, in partnership with India’s Department of Biotechnology, developed the 3-dose intradermal vaccine, called ZyCov-D, which is authorized there for use in people aged...
Vaccine supplies are "unlikely to change drastically," Lahariya said. "India needs anywhere between 200 to 250 million doses a month to function Covid-19 vaccination drives to full capacity and it has around 70-80 million doses a month. Clearly, there is a long way to get (to) that ki...
COVAXIN®, India's indigenousCOVID-19 vaccineby Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV). The indigenous, inactivated vaccine is developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech'sBSL-3 (Bio-Safety Level 3...
(Kumar et al.2021). Repeated formulation of COVID-19 vaccines may be needed to control the SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants and the sharing of variant-specific PCR primers might assist in tracking their spread, particularly in resource-limited countries. For sero...
The recent article "Exploring the COVID-19 vaccine candidates against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants: where do we stand and where do we go?" published on December 2 is thought provoking. The authors highlight critical disparities in the manufacture and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines although ...
"ICMR and BBIL will seek fast-track approvals to expedite vaccine development, subsequent animal studies and clinical evaluation of the vaccine," the research body said. The number of COVID-19 cases in India Sunday reached 62,939 and the death toll rose to 2,109. Enditem...
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinopharm has been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for "emergency use." This means its safety, efficacy and quality has been checked and it can be used by the international COVAX vaccine effort. WHO Director-General Tedros...
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In conclusion, the insights of this review would facilitate the development of more likely diagnostics and ideal vaccines for the global control of COVID-19. Keywords: ARDS; coronavirus; detection methods; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; CRISPR; vaccine; nucleic acid test (NAT) 1. Introduction The ...