Emergency use Covid vaccine by early Jan: Guleria

December 03, 2020 13:53

AIIMS chief, Dr Randeep Guleria

Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS Delhi, on the trials for the Covid vaccine: "In India, we now have vaccines which are in their final trial stage. Hopeful that by the end of this month or early next month we should get emergency use authorisation from Indian regulatory authorities to start giving vaccine to public.

"There is good data available that the vaccines are very safe. Safety and efficacy of vaccine not compromised at all. 70,000-80,000 volunteers have been given vaccine, no significant serious adverse effects seen. Data shows that in the short term vaccine is safe.

"The Chennai trial case is an incidental finding rather than related to vaccine. When we vaccinate a large number of people, some of them may have some other disease, which may not be related to vaccine."

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