Drug Controller General of India

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India’s Vaccine Approvals Had One Problem. It Gave Rise To the Other Two.

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/01/2021

For the Modi government's desire to push an Indian...

FILE PHOTO: An employee in personal protective equipment (PPE) removes vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from a visual inspection machine inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, in Pune

Bharat Biotech Planning 700 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate in 2021

Anuron Kumar Mitra 04/01/2021

Covaxin's emergency use approval has prompted questions from industry...

FILE PHOTO: A medic fills a syringe with COVAXIN, an Indian government-backed experimental COVID-19 vaccine, before administering it to a health worker during its trials, in Ahmedabad

DCGI’s Covaxin Verdict Forces First Vaccine Recipients To Make a Tough Call

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/01/2021

We have a situation in which at least some...

FILE PHOTO: An employee in personal protective equipment (PPE) removes vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, from a visual inspection machine inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, Pune

What Different Regulators Have Said About the AstraZeneca Vaccine Candidate

Josephine Mason and Krishna N. Das 03/01/2021

Covishield, the name of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate made...

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10 Questions the DCGI Needs To Answer About the Two Vaccine Candidates Approved

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/01/2021

The statement's brevity, Dr Somani's refusal to take questions...

FILE PHOTO: A man rides his motorcycle past a parked bus of Indian biotechnology company Bharat Biotech outside its office in Hyderabad

Expert Panel Recommends Bharat Biotech Vaccine Candidate for DCGI Approval

The recommendation for Bharat Biotech's vaccine candidate came a...

Subject Expert Committee Okays AstraZeneca, Bharat Biotech Vaccine Pitches

Krishna N. Das 02/01/2021

The next step is for the Drug Controller General...