Pfizer, SII seeks emergency use authorisation for COVID-19 vaccine in India
Two vaccine manufacturers — Pfizer and Serum Institute of India (SII) — have applied for the emergency use authorisation for COVID-19 vaccine with Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), officials said Monday.
While as Pfizer India has become the first pharmaceutical firm to approach the DCGI on Friday, the SII became the first indigenous company to apply for the same on Sunday.
“Pfizer India has submitted the emergency use authorisation application in Form CT-18 for grant of permission to import and market Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine in India,” an official said.
However, the extremely low temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius, required for storing the vaccine poses a big challenge for its delivery in a country like India.
Pfizer has already secured such clearance in Britain and Bahrain.
“As promised, before the end of 2020, SII has applied for emergency use authorisation for the first made-in-India vaccine, Covishield. This will save countless lives, and I thank the government of India and Narendra Modi for their invaluable support,”
SII chief Adar Poonawalla in a statement on Monday said.
At present, the phase-three clinical trial of Covishield, co-sponsored by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), is being conducted in various parts of the country.
The SII has partnered with global pharma giant AstraZeneca and the Oxford University for manufacturing Covishield.
Poonawalla said India would be purchasing 300-400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the SII, which is currently producing 50-60 million doses per month and plans to scale up to 100 million doses by January next year.
The vaccine can be stored in 2-8 degrees Celsius.
Indian government has initiated a backend preparation for the largest immunisation drive in the country.
At present, five COVID-19 vaccine candidates are in advanced stages of development in India.
Last week Modi said that experts are hopeful that India will get a vaccine in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, on Monday morning the federal health ministry said the number of COVID-19 cases in the country has reached 9,677,203 and the death toll has risen to 140,573.
Globally India is the second worst-hit country due to pandemic after the United States.
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Source: NEW DELHI, Xinhua
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Y are the Indians Exporting the COVID VAX when it does NOT have enough of its own ?
There is a catch ! They are FREE VAXs ! To LDCs like Nepal and Bhutan !
But the question is Y is the WHO not sending VAXs to the LDCs ?
WHO is being careful and cautious – as they will export the VAXs for free,ONLY after they are exhaustively tested and reviewed, in the USA and the EU.
So what is the game plan of the Indians,who are exporting the VAXs,to Nepal and Bhutan – EVEN BEFORE the general Indian Public,is VAXed ?
THE INDIANS ARE TESTING THE VAX on GUINEA PIGS,of LDCs – BEFORE THEY ARE USED ON INDIANS !
ONLY A FOOL WOULD USE SUCH A VAX ?
Nepal and Bhutan are NOT REALLY soverign nations ! They are plagued by the CURSE OF BEING NEIGHBORS OF INDIA !
The Serum Institute Fire proves that Indians are INCAPABLE of CRITICAL DRUG MANUFACTURE !
The vaccines will fail – certainly ! Y the rush by the Indians ? It is simple ! The numbers of COVID cases which had a daily case count of 100,000, in September 2020, crashed DURING THE WINTERS – when it should have peaked !
Y did that happen ? Simple – The Indians fudged the figures !
Now to complete the fudge – they will use the VAX to reduce the daily count even more – as it will provide a causative impetus to the fudging exercise !
Indians have NIL Scientific IQ !
The Hindoos did not know that the Earth Rotates and that the Sun is still !
Even a FOOL knows that the earth rotates on its axis causing day and night.
But according to Vedas, the earth is static and this statement is repeated several times. The following are some of the examples:
1. Oh Man ! He who made the trembling earth static is Indra. (Rig Ved 2/12/12)
2. The God who made the earth stable (Yajur Ved 32/6)
3. Indra protects the wide earth which is immovable and has many forms (Atarv Ved 12/1/11)
4. Let us walk on the Wide and Static earth (Atharv Ved 12/1/17)
As the Veds Claim that the earth is static and so they tried to prove that the sun moves around the earth.