In good news for millions of Indians, the Center announced on Sunday (October 18) that the Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech would soon begin clinical trials of the nasal coronavirus vaccine in India.
According to the Center, SII and Bharat Biotech will begin trials of the nasal coronavirus vaccine after receiving the necessary regulatory approvals from the government.
In particular, there is currently no nasal test vaccine against coronavirus being tested in India. Bharat Biotech is already developing an indigenous Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and, for coronavirus vaccine candidate trials, has signed an agreement with the University of Washington and the University of St Louis for rehearsals.
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In his Sunday Samvaad on Sunday, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said: “Bharat Biotech signed an agreement with the University of Washington School of Medicine, under which the company will conduct trials, produce and will market an intranasal vaccine for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus infection. “
Harsh Vardhan added that IBS and Bharat Biotech will soon begin late-stage testing of a candidate vaccine for nasal coronavirus in India. The Union minister reiterated that thousands of participants are generally involved in the last stage of the trial.
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A few days ago, the Center had announced that India would receive a vaccine against the coronavirus in a few months. The government had also said that the process of delivering the coronavirus vaccine to people across the country would begin shortly after the vaccine was developed.
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“We are very much in the process of developing the vaccine … in the next few months at most we should have a vaccine and in the next six months we should be in the process of delivering the vaccine to the people of India,” Harsh said. Vardhan had said.
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