Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan On Monday inaugurated India's first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine "Pneumosil", which has been developed by the Serum Institute of India
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
Pneumosil was found to be safe and effective in the prevention of pneumonia and based on which Pneumosil has been licensed by the Drugs Controller General of India in July 2020
Serum Institute of India announced the launch of India's first indigenously developed pneumococcal vaccine -- Pneumosil
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
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Pfizer yet to submit data to regulator while Serum Institute has provided all additional information for emergency use authorisation
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
Serum Institute of India said that the country would require a massive funding of Rs 80,000 crore for distribution of the Covid vaccine for the next one year
Global vaccine partnership COVAX has lined up almost two billion doses of existing and candidate Covid-19 vaccines for use worldwide
Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Pune-based firm, said on Friday Serum was seeking approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for the two-full dose regimen
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If the data is found satisfactory, an approval for Covishield, Oxford-AstraZeneca's vaccine candidate, can come in by the first week of January
The companies said 48 volunteers will be enrolled at three dose levels and expect to begin dosing the trial participants in the first week of January
Serum Institute of India said the volunteer was "falsely laying the blame for his medical problems on the vaccine trial"
A Chennai-based volunteer had developed severe neurological complications after first dose of vaccination of Covishield which is under development at Serum Institute
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The application submitted by the Pfizer was not discussed at the SEC meeting as the company has requested for more time for giving its presentation
Having achieved the first goal of seeing whether the vaccines work, we can be more ambitious and design studies to assess whether and how much they reduce transmission, says Kang