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India achieved the milestone of administering 100 crore COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday.
Bharat Biotech's Dr Krishna Ella termed it as a "significant success".
WHO has approved vaccines Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca- SK Bio/SII, Johnson & Johnson Janssen, Moderna, and Sinopharm for emergency use
The trial was conducted on 25,800 subjects, and the data submitted to the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) showed the vaccine was “well-tolerated”
Watch in this video: Dr Krishna Ella, CMD of Bharat Biotech answers to every question regarding Covaxin. Dr Ella said that Covaxin is safest coronavirus vaccine in the world.
The indigenous vaccine is developed and manufactured at Bharat Biotech’s Biosafety Level-3 biocontainment facility.
The vaccine is only for those above 18 years, not for children as the research has to be done in the case of covid vaccine for children.
Covaxin may be priced near Rs 1,000 when it reaches to the market.
The breakthrough development came amidst a worlword scare about the deadly mosquito-borne virus which prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare a global health emergency.
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