Duration of the emergency use listing process depends on the quality of the data submitted by the vaccine manufacturer and on those data meeting WHO criteria, according to the agency.
The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech Ltd is expected to submit the remaining documents by June and is confident about obtaining WHO's authorisation for EUL, sources said.
The trials would be on children aged 2-18 years for which Bharat Biotech may get the licence in the third quarter of this year, a FICCI Ladies Organisation press release Sunday said.
Team collected blood samples of patients who had recovered from Covid along with those who had been vaccinated with Covaxin. But experts say lab tests aren’t enough.
According to the Aam Aadmi Party legislator, 1.18 lakh people in Delhi were vaccinated on 15 May and around 10.5 lakh people have taken both vaccine doses so far.
While the vaccination drive appeared to be faltering in several states, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan urged the state govts to first focus more on second dose vaccinations.
In a tweet Wednesday, Bharat Biotech Joint Managing Director Suchitra Ella said the company has already dispatched Covaxin lots to 18 states on 10 May.
Covaxin, indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research, is being used on adults in India's ongoing Covid vaccination drive.
Flagging shortage of Covid vaccine in the national capital, AAP leader Atishi informed that 2,67,690 doses of Covishield will be supplied by the Centre to Delhi by Tuesday evening.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has backtracked on his retirement rules. The ‘75-year rule’ was applied selectively to sideline some leaders, but it doesn’t apply to the top brass.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.
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