AstraZeneca’s COVISHIELD Receives EUA in India for COVID-19

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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

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