The decision would pave the way for the vaccine's rollout in the world's second-most populous country
V G Somani's statement comes even as subject expert committee is set to meet on Jan 1 to consider three emergency-use authorisation applications
Argentina's National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices (ANMAT) on Wednesday approved the use of vaccine from AstraZeneca, against Covid-19 in the country
Terming the approval for Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for use in the UK as a "big step forward", AIIMS Delhi Director Dr Randeep Guleria said that India will have the Covid-19 vaccine within days
Astra vaccine accounts for more than 40% of supplies going to low- and middle-income nations
Sources close to the development said the expert committee sought more information from Serum Institute regarding the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
India is also considering emergency-use authorisation applications for vaccines made by Pfizer Inc with Germany's BioNTech, and by India's Bharat Biotech
SII, the world's biggest producer of vaccines, has already stockpiled about 50 million doses, enough for 25 million people
The government has today accepted the recommendation to authorise Oxford University/AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine for use, the health ministry said
Pakistan, Japan find cases with new coronavirus variants on their own soil
Lockdowns in UK could ease in weeks with introduction of another vaccine
SII has stockpiled 40-50 mn doses and is adding more every week. Most of these will come to India, as exporting would require fulfilling WHO's pre-qualification procedures
The coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca should be effective against the highly transmissible new strain of the virus, the report said
In an e-mail interview with Sohini Das, Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer, Serum Institute of India, says the firm is not raising additional capital through private equity
UK health secretary said that AstraZeneca had submitted a full data package about its Covid-19 vaccine to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for approval
India VIX cooled off over 6 per cent to end at 20.5 levels
This could be the first country to give the regulatory green light for the British drugmaker's vaccine as the British medicine regulator continues to examine data from the trials
AstraZeneca India has received marketing authorisation from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for use of Fasenra
Developers of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine announced signing an agreement with AstraZeneca to test a combination of the British drugmaker's Covid shots and a component of the vaccine created in Moscow
President Vladimir Putin hailed British drugmaker AstraZeneca's decision to test combining its own experimental Covid-19 vaccine with Russia's Sputnik V shot