Vaccine Ready By December And Available By March 2021: Serum Institute

India may get the COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021 as the country is heading fast towards vaccine development with two of the manufacturers already in phase-3 trial and one in the phase-2 trial.

Pune’s Serum Institute of India (SII) has opened up on saying that vaccine Covishield will be ready by December but the vaccines will come to the market in March 2021.

Pune-based drug maker signed a deal with British-Swedish company AstraZeneca to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine candidate, developed by the University of Oxford. The final stage of the clinical trial of Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine has already started in the country.

The vaccine is are combinant viral vector vaccine. It uses a weakened version of a chimpanzee common cold virus that encodes instructions for making proteins from the novel coronavirus to generate an immune response and prevent infection.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come out with a unique that would ensure the delivery of vaccine to the remote areas.

Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting to direct his government to deliver and administer the shots on the lines of elections conducted in the country, involving all levels of government as well as civil society.