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COUNTDOWN BEGINS!! 73 days to COVID-19 vaccine; Indians to get free shots

News | 23/08/2020 07:39 AM | Click to read full article

India’s first COVID vaccine-Serum Institute’s ‘Covishield’- will be commercialized in 73 days. Indians will be immunized free under the National Immunisation Programme (NIP).

“The government has given us a ‘special manufacturing priority license’ and fast-tracked the trial protocol processes to get the trials completed in 58 days. The first dosing is happening from today, the second will happen after 29 days and the final in another 15 days. By that time, we are planning to commercialize Covishield.”

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