India Will Get 5 More Vaccines by October 2021

India is likely to have five more COVID-19 vaccines by October this year.

As of now, India has granted to two vaccines: 

  1. Covishield: manufactured by Serum Institute of India and developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca 

  2. COVAXIN : Bharat Biotech 

Top government officials have told the news agency ANI that India is likely to have five more COVID-19 vaccines by October this year. 

These vaccines are: 

  1. Sputnik V: This is a Russian vaccine and will be manufactured in India by Dr. Reddy's - who are a pharmaceutical company. 

  2. Johnson & Johnson vaccine which has been created in collaboration with Biological E.  

  3. Novavax vaccine which is in collaboration with SII.  

  4. Zydus Cadila's vaccine 

  5. Bharat Biotech's Intranasal Vaccine

Russia's Sputnik V - which is 92% effective—is likely to be granted approval within the next 10 days. The vaccines will be available in India by June. Currently, only people above the age of 45 are allowed to get vaccinated. Earlier, healthcare and frontline workers were also allowed to be vaccinated. However, earlier this month, the central government had asked states to stall fresh registrations for them. 

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