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India cases inch closer to 3 million, has the third-highest cases after the United States and Brazil. India will have a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus by the end of the year  says health minister.

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Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan

India will have a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus by the end of the year said Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan. Speaking to reporters, he said a Covid-19 vaccine is likely in the next 4-5 months. “I hope that if everything goes well, India will have access to a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020,” he later tweeted.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said one of the three Covid-19 vaccine candidates has entered the third phase of the pre-clinical human trial. According to VK Paul, head of the national task force on Covid-19, the vaccine candidate entering the third phase has yielded encouraging results in the initial phases of its trial. He said the other two vaccines are currently in Phase-I or II of their pre-clinical trials.

However, they did not reveal the names of the vaccines while sharing the status of their testing phase. While the officials did not reveal the names of the vaccine candidates while speaking about their testing phase, it could be gathered that the vaccine entering the third phase is Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, jointly developed with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

India cases inch closer to 3 million:

India has recorded another 24-hour jump in coronavirus infections as the disease spreads across the country’s southern states after plateauing in the capital and the financial center of Mumbai. India’s Health Ministry reported 69,878 new cases on Saturday, bringing the total to 2,975,701. Globally India has been reporting the biggest daily rise in cases for 18 consecutive days.

Some 2.2 million people have recovered from the disease in India since the first case was diagnosed in late January. India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and its 55,794 deaths give it the fourth-highest death toll in the world. Some 2.2 million people have recovered from the disease in India since the first case was diagnosed in late January.

India’s  three vaccine candidates for Covid-19:

Bharat-biotech-corona-vaccine-india-covaxinIndia currently has three vaccine candidates for Covid-19 — ChAdOx1, developed by Oxford University and manufactured jointly by the Serum Institute of India (SII), Pune, and AstraZeneca; Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, jointly developed with the Indian Council of Medical Research; and the third is ZycovD by Zydus Cadila. The SII had earlier said of starting the Phase 2 trial of its Covid-19 vaccine this week. It added it has shortlisted 10 centres across India to host Phase 2 and 3 human clinical trials. Meanwhile, Zydus Cadila administered the second dose of its Covid-19 vaccine a few days ago.

The developments on the vaccine came a day after the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration met five domestic vaccine manufacturers to review the clinical trial stages of these candidates. The manufacturers included two whose products are not yet in the clinical trial stage in India. Zydus Cadila had stated in the review meeting that it may be able to launch the vaccine by next year.

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