Covid Vaccine News Today India

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Covid vaccine news today india. Approval for human clinical trials for two made in india covid 19 vaccine candidates covaxin and zycov d marks the beginning of the end for the novel coronavirus pandemic that has. The covid 19 vaccine covishield being developed by oxford university and manufactured by the serum institute of india sii could be ready as early as. Coronavirus india news live updates covid 19 cases today latest news covid 19 vaccine tracker corona cases in india. Harsh vardhan will give the details on all such questions today as part of india s coronavirus vaccine plan and immunization targets for 2021.

Active coronavirus cases in the country are now at 8 38 729 with 62 27 295 recoveries so far the health ministry data showed. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease also surged to 78 68 968 pushing the national recovery rate to 92 49 per cent. Earlier this week health minister harsh vardhan had said that research to develop a covid 19 vaccine is being done expeditiously and that it is most likely to be ready by early 2021. Bharat biotech candidate launch and astrazeneca s hopes hungary has said it will import small doses of russian made sputnik v for late stage trials by december.

Speaking during a session of the india today healthgiri awards 2020 guleria admitted that it is hard to say when a vaccine will be available in the country and that it depends on a lot of factors from the ongoing trials to the effectiveness of the vaccine against covid 19 infections.