Nusantaratv.with– Minister of Health India said on Sunday (22/11) that a locally developed Covid-19 vaccine candidate could complete its final trial in a month or two.
The announcement raised hopes for a speedy launch in the world’s second-highest number of countries. infection.
The state-run India Medical Research Council (ICMR) and privately held Bharat Biotech this month started the third phase of the COVAXIN trial, in a process that will involve 26,000 volunteers.
It is India’s most advanced experimental vaccine.
“We are in the process of developing our original vaccine, in the process of completing our third phase of trials in the next month or two,” Harsh Vardhan told a web conference on the pandemic.
He reiterated the government’s plan to immunize 200 million to 250 million Indians by July.
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