COVID-19: Two dose vaccine likely to be approved today

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

New Delhi, Jan 03: India is likely to approve administering two doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine and another locally developed by Bharat Biotech, each four weeks apart.

India’s Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation has already approved vaccines and a final decision is expected to be announced by the agency at a news conference today at 11 am.

An expert panel of India’s central drug authority on Saturday recommended granting permission for restricted emergency use of the indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin with certain conditions, a day after giving similar direction for the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, sources said.

Covaxin has been indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

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