Written by Prabha Raghavan | New Delhi | Updated: November 20, 2020 7:08:08 am The candidate, who is being manufactured by SII under an agreement with Oxford-AstraZeneca, is the pioneer in India’s own race to find a vaccine to defeat the novel coronavirus. (Photo of Fie) Serum Institute of India …
Read More »From Vaccine Candidates to Success Rates Everything You Wanted to Know About Covid-19 Injection Trials in India
A year has passed since the first novel cases Coronavirus Infections were detected in the Chinese province of Wuhan. In this period, the global scientific community together with government regulators have opened new paths to develop and test vaccines against COVID-19 that can end the pandemic. These efforts have begun …
Read More »Serum Institute prepares 4 crore doses of covid vaccine, awaiting launch in January
The Serum Institute of India (SII) has prepared 4 million doses of the new coronavirus vaccine. “IBS has already manufactured 40 million doses of the vaccine, under DCGI’s manufacturing and storage at risk license,” the company said in a statement. The SII, with the help of the Indian Council of …
Read More »Covishield Could Be Realistic Pandemic Solution: IBS Ends Phase 3 Trial Enrollment
The world’s largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India (SII), which is working in collaboration with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) to find a vaccine for Covid-19, announced Wednesday that it has completed registration of the Phase 3 clinical trials for your Covishield candidate. IBS and ICMR are …
Read More »Serum Institute joins 5 candidates; Poonawalla says ‘it will be affordable’
The Serum Institute of India (SII) has joined five candidate vaccines to fight the deadly novel coronavirus, Adar Poonawalla said. Earlier this year, the Pune-based drugmaker signed an agreement with British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca to manufacture its experimental vaccine developed by the University of Oxford. The Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is currently …
Read More »The Covid-19 Vaccine Will Probably Be Available In January, It Will Be Affordable: Adar Poonawalla
Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pune-based pharmaceutical company Serum Institute of India (SII), said Wednesday that a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is likely to be available in the country by January. of 2021, as long as approvals from regulatory bodies are current on time. In …
Read More »‘The COVID-19 vaccine will be available in India in January if …’, says Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute
A safe and effective vaccine against the new coronavirus may be available in India by January 2021, says Adar Poonawalla, executive director (CEO) of the Serum Institute of India. The Pune-based drugmaker teamed up with major British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca to produce the coronavirus vaccine for low- and middle-income countries, developed …
Read More »Covid-19 Vaccine Ready to Launch in December, Says Serum Institute Executive Director Adar Poonawalla; But add 2 conditions
Covishield, a vaccine candidate that has shown promise during trials, may be ready by December 2020, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla told News18. However, he added the caveat that “a lot is subject to UK data and also a lot depends on approvals from India’s Controller General of …
Read More »Phase 3 of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine will begin in the coming days
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed the second phase of clinical trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The civic body will soon begin testing for the third phase after the first group of volunteers completes 28 days from their first vaccination. 200 healthy volunteers participated in the second phase …
Read More »IBS prepares 1 billion doses of 5 Covid-19 vaccines: Adar Poonawalla
The Serum Institute of India (SII) is preparing 1 billion doses of five different vaccines against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) worldwide before the end of 2021-22, according to a report. Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the world’s largest vaccine maker by volume, said his company plans to launch at least one …
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