Drugs Controller General of India chief VG Somani on Sunday announced that the coronavirus vaccines of the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech have been approved for restricted emergency use in the country. Both the vaccines have to be administered in two doses and have to be stored at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius.
This came a day after the Subject Expert Committee of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation recommended the two coronavirus vaccines – Covaxin and Covishield – for emergency use. These are first vaccines to be approved in India, which is the world’s second worst affected country by the pandemic after the United States.
Within minutes of the approval, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that it would make every Indian proud that the two vaccines that have been approved by the country’s drug controller are made in India. “This shows the eagerness of our scientific community to fulfill the dream of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, at the root of which is…
