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- A Covid vaccine Mock drill has been planned to be conducted in four states Gujarat, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab.
- These vaccine trials will be co-sponsored by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
- The Serum Institute of India has already produced around 50 million dosages of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’.
- The Pune based Serum Institute of India (SII) is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer.
- The drug regulator ICMR is considering three vaccines – AstraZeneca’s, Pfizer/BioNTech’s and one developed by a domestic company, Bharat Biotech, for emergency approval.
- India has eight COVID-19 vaccine candidates under different stages of trials, including three indigenous ones.
- These vaccines include the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - Covishield, ICMR-Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, Russia’s Sputnik-V and Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D.
- The others include Serum Institute’s NVX-CoV2373 and Geneva’s HGC019 and two unlabelled vaccines by Bharat Biotech and Biological E Limited.
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