Watsupptoday Desk


An expert committee under the chairmanship of NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul will meet today to consider the logistics and ethical aspects of procuring and administering the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Health Ministry said, the Committee on vaccine administration will engage with all the stakeholders including state governments and vaccine manufacturers. The committee would chalk out strategies on the aspects of prioritisation of the vaccine administration once it is developed, rollout and cold chain logistics and training of the people who would be administering it.

ICMR had said that the phase-1 human clinical trials of the two COVID-19 vaccine candidates, developed indigenously by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and Zydus Cadila Limited have been completed and the trials have moved to phase 2.

The Serum Institute of India, Pune has also been permitted for conducting Phase 2 and 3 human clinical trials of the Oxford University-developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country.