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• India has granted the emergency use approval for AstraZeneca and the Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine developed by a day after an advisory panel of CDSCO issued its recommendation
• Covishield would be the first vaccine to be given the go-ahead by drug regulators in India. SII and AstraZeneca have partnered up to manufacture and distribute the vaccine in India and several other countries
• Discussion for the EUAs are underway for Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN- Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D- and Russia’s Sputnik-V. India plans to inoculate 300M of its 1.35B people in the first six to eight months of 2021

 ­ Ref: Hindustan Times | Image: The Scientist Magazine