GUWAHATI: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has said that if everything goes well, India would get a vaccine against the novel coronavirus by the end of this year.
Three COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including two indigenous ones, are in different phases of development in India.
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The phase-one human clinical trials of the two indigenous COVID-19 vaccine candidates, one developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR and the other by Zydus Cadila Ltd, have been completed and the trials have moved to phase-two, ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava had said recently.
The Serum Institute of India, which has partnered with AstraZeneca for manufacturing the COVID-19 vaccine candidate, developed by the University of Oxford, has been permitted for conducting its phase two and three human clinical trials in India. It is likely to start the trials next week.
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In a tweet in Hindi, Vardhan said on Saturday: “I hope that if everything goes well, India will get a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year.”
कब तक आएगी #कोरोना की #vaccine ?
— Dr Harsh Vardhan (@drharshvardhan) August 22, 2020
पत्रकारों के इस सवाल पर मैंने उम्मीद जताई कि अगर सब कुछ ठीक रहा तो भारत इस साल के आखिर तक #coronavaccine हासिल कर लेगा। @MoHFW_INDIA @CSIR_IND @NDRFHQ pic.twitter.com/zqAxftKUdt
With a single-day spike of 69,239 infections, India’s COVID-19 caseload mounted to 30,44,940 on Sunday while the death toll climbed to 56,706.
