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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Completion of trials could take at least 6 to 9 months, says Soumya Swaminathan -R Prasad

Completion of trials could take at least 6 to 9 months, says Soumya Swaminathan -R Prasad

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published Published on Jul 5, 2020   modified Modified on Jul 6, 2020

-The Hindu

It is encouraging to see that at least seven Indian companies are developing COVID-19 vaccines. All of them must be tested ... and till we see results from these trials, we cannot predict which of them will be successful, says the Chief Scientist at WHO

A day after scientists and experts raised serious concerns over Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) letter to all 12 principal investigators to speed up the trial process of Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine and enable it to be launched for “public health use latest by August 15”, the nodal agency issued a clarification saying the letter was meant only to “cut unnecessary red tape” and “speed up recruitment of participants”. Experts around the world have been saying that it would take at least 12-18 months to launch a vaccine for COVID-19.

In an email to The Hindu, Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization, said: “A realistic (but very optimistic) timeline from the start of Phase-1 to the completion of Phase-3 could be about six to nine months (if all goes exactly according to plan).”

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The Hindu, 5 July, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/covid-19-vaccine-completion-of-trials-could-take-at-least-6-to-9-months-says-soumya-swaminathan/article31993079.ece?homepage=true


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