Indian Health and Family Welfare, Minister Harsh Vardhan has come out to say that the nation would have a vaccine against the coronavirus disease by early next year.
He recently revealed that India is also making effective efforts for vaccines just like other countries.
According to him, three candidate vaccines have reached phase one, phase two, and phase three stages already, and an expert group under the guidance of Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) is looking into them currently.
He added that Indian pharmaceutical companies — Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute, Zydus Cadila, Panacea Biotec, Indian Immunologicals, Mynvax, and Biological E — are among the domestic firms developing the COVID-19 vaccine.
His words, “We are expecting that our country will have COVID vaccine by the early next year,”
“India is also making effective efforts for vaccines just like other countries.”
“In India, among the candidate vaccines, three have reached phase one, phase two and phase three stages.”
“An expert group under the guidance of Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) is looking at it and we have advanced planning in place,”
“Indian pharmaceutical companies — Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute, Zydus Cadila, Panacea Biotec, Indian Immunologicals, Mynvax and Biological E — are among the domestic firms developing the COVID-19 vaccine. Some of them have already entered the phase 3 trials.”
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