Modi visited drugmaker Zydus Cadila's plant near Ahmedabad earlier in the day.
Russia's sovereign wealth fund and Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year of Russia's Covid vaccine Sputnik V, in India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit vaccine maker Bharat Biotech's facility here on Saturday, the Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar said
The trial will cover around 28,500 subjects aged 18 years and above
The Sola civil hospital is one of the 130 centres across the country where the third phase of clinical trials of Covaxin would be conducted
Serum, Bharat Biotech in talks with countries, agencies to supply vaccines
The firm said subject was now safe. Though it was reported to the drug regulator within 24 hours, the event turned out to be unrelated to the vaccine.
Moderna and AstraZeneca are close behind the largest US drugmaker and are likely to have early data on their vaccine candidates before the end of the year.
The national vaccine distribution plan is being formulated with the assumption that limited volumes of the inoculation will be available in the first few months of production, Paul said
The Ahmedabad-based firm is looking to hire contract manufacturers for an additional 50 million to 70 million doses of its plasmid DNA vaccine
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.
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/business/indias-bharat-biotech-in-talks-to-take-vaccine-candidate-covaxin-global-906089.html
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.
Indian players like Bharat Biotech and Zydus Cadila ready for large-scale phase-3 trials
Most vaccines in human testing require two shots for effectiveness, and developers still aren't even sure if they'll prevent infections
Warns of spike in cases during winter; China, UAE among the few countries have allowed such authorisation
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