The world is facing a crucial battle against coronavirus demon. Various countries and research laboratories are involved in finding vaccines. A short glimpse of the vaccine current stages till today, October 22, 05:00 PM IST is given.
The Brazilian health authority has reported a death of the 28 year old doctor who is a volunteer on the clinical trials. However, the report said he was not vaccinated till then and is died of COVID-19 infection. The trials of the vaccine AstraZeneca will continue as per the schedule. No further information about the volunteer who has died and others under test are not revealed, as it the duty to maintain confidentiality of the volunteers.
A Male Volunteer in Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials died in Brazil
India with strong and robust private sector partners enormously high amount or a large portion of COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be manufactured in India said Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman. The US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the country will have safe and effective vaccines to the highly affected Americans by the end of 2020. Pfizer Inc or Moderna Inc, will be available by the end of the year and can be distributed among the people, said the officials.
India will vaccinate 30 Million people on the first phase
A senior health minister in India has said if the tests are successful, the vaccines will be available by the December. But is difficult to predict the exact time. It all depend on the nature of the trial flow and the regulatory approval.
Medical students can be trained to vaccinate, people can get vaccinated soon
