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Clinical Trials Of Novovax's Covid-19 Vaccine In India At An Advanced State Of Completion: Dr V K Paul
Swarajya Staff
Jun 15, 2021, 06:17 PM | Updated 06:17 PM IST
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One of India's top-Health policy makers and Niti-Aayog member Dr V K Paul has termed Novovax's Covid-19 vaccine's efficacy data as promising and has said that its trials in India are in an advanced stage of completion.
"What we're learning from data available in the public domain that this vaccine is very safe and highly effective. It'll be produced in India", Dr Paul has said, as quoted by Livemint.
The ICMR and SII are jointly performing a phase-2/3 observer-blind, randomised, controlled study to determine the safety and immunogenicity of Covovax in Indian adults.
It was reported yesterday (14 June) that the Novovax Covid-19 vaccine has shown 90 per cent efficacy in a late-stage study carried out in the US and Mexico and involved 30,000 participants.
Novovax's vaccine is easy to supply and store and is expected to play a key role in boosting vaccine supply in developing nations. It can be stored in standard refrigerators.
Novovax has entered in an agreement with Serum Institute of India (SII) to produce 1.1 billion doses of the vaccine. This will be the second vaccine produced by SII after Covishield.
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