Dr Gagandeep kang, the vice president of the board of Coalition for Outbreak Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a global association that seeks to proactively develop vaccines for epidemics, and a professor at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, discusses concerns surrounding the approval process of the two vaccines by DCGI during …
Read More »‘The population of India could be fully vaccinated by the end of 2022’
India is studying various vaccines from Russia’s Sputnik V and Covishield to Covaxin from the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Oxford and Pune, which is being developed by Bharat Biotech in association with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR). Not many of these vaccine manufacturers have shared much …
Read More »At least 3 years for all of India to be vaccinated; healthy adults may not be given virus vaccines before the 22nd
Even if a vaccine against coronavirus is available early next year, healthy adults, without any underlying disease, are unlikely to receive it before 2022, according to a new book ‘Till We Win: India’s Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic’. The book is co-authored by AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, Public Policy and …
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