India is the first country in the world where 4 crore vaccine is being prepared: Prakash Javadekar

New Delhi, Saturday 2 January 2021

Emergency use of Corona vaccine is allowed in India. In addition, approval has been sought for the use of many other vaccines. Requests have been made for this. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that India is the only country where four vaccines are being prepared, adding that the covishield of serum has been given for emergency use tomorrow.

It is worth mentioning here that trial runs are being run in many states for vaccination of people, in India first the British Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccines were approved for emergency use, the US has also approved the Pfizer vaccine.

Clinical trials of 6 Corona vaccines are currently underway in India, including Covishield and Covacin, Covishield is an oxytocin vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of AstraZeneca and Pune. There is a vaccine.

In addition to these two, the ZyCOV-D and NVX-CoV2373 vaccines being developed by Cadila Healthcare in Ahmedabad are being developed by the Serum Institute in collaboration with Novamax.

There are two other vaccines, one developed by Biological E Ltd., Hyderabad in collaboration with MIT, USA, and the other HDT, developed by Pune-based Genova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. in collaboration with USA.

One more vaccine is being developed by Biotech International Ltd. of India in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University, USA, which is in the pre-clinical stage, Dr. Russia's Sputnik Vino is also being tested by Reddy's Lab.

India is perhaps the only country where four vaccines are getting ready. Serum's Covishield was yesterday approved for emergency use: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar. pic.twitter.com/IelEQP6VZK

- ANI (@ANI) January 2, 2021