Saturday, November 14, 2020

An Update: Covid-19 vaccine developments in India

India's Serum institute is ready with 40 million doses of AstraZeneca's Vaccine ready to ship and the Novavax's vaccine will be made. The bulk of Novavax vaccine has been received by Serum. Both of these need regulatory approval.

Serum has been working on getting regulatory approval for AstraZeneca's vaccine  from India based on its trial on 1600 participants. 

The final recipients of these vaccines are yet to be published.

  • Additionally, India has two home-grown vaccines in development..

  • Reddy's laboratories is carrying put out a trial of Russia's Sputnik vaccine developed by the Gemaleya Institute.

  • Other major development has been the over 90% success rate of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

Current (as of 11/14/2020) statistics for the most affected 3 countries derived from Johns Hopkins' data is shown below.

Country

All Time

Past Day

Past Week

Past Month

 

Confirmed Cases

Deaths

New Cases

New Deaths

New Cases

New Deaths

New Cases

New Deaths

INDIA

8,773,479

129,188

44,684

520

311,399

3,626

1,466,382

17,922

BRAZIL

5,810,652

164,737

29,070

456

179,471

2,722

669.789

12,990

US

10,737,335

244,332

177,224

1,138

979,723

7,327

2,841,426

27,143

Source :    https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region

It goes beyond saying that we need to outpace the virus and develop the vaccine(s) to put an end to this  human tragedy.

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