Bharat Biotech’s COVID Vaccine Could Be Launched In Feb 2021: ICMR

New Delhi: With last-stage trials beginning this month, the Indian government-backed COVID-19 vaccine could be launched in February. Since studies so far show that it is safe and effective, it could come months earlier than expected

Earlier, Bharat Biotech, a private company that is developing COVAXIN with the government-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), had hoped to launch it only in the second quarter of next year, The Hindu reported quoting Reuters.

“The vaccine has shown good efficacy,” senior ICMR scientist Rajni Kant, who is also a member of its COVID-19 task-force was quoted as saying at the research body’s New Delhi headquarters on Thursday.

“It is expected that by the beginning of next year, February or March, something would be available.”