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India Capable To Develop Vax For Any New Covid Strain: ICMR

OMMCOM NEWS by OMMCOM NEWS
September 15, 2023
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New Delhi: India is well able to develop a vaccine for any new Covid strain, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Rajeev Bahl said on Friday.

“Currently we are not seeing any strain more virulent than the previous Omicron,” Bahl said, at a press conference, noting that the virus is not gone.

“We are continuously monitoring the new strains for more transmissibility, severity (that is whether the virus is capable of increasing mortality rate and hospitalisation), and how it’s escaping immunity.

“If the need arises, we have capability to make vaccine according to the strain,” he added

He said that there were only 29 per cent takers for the Covid booster vaccine in India. We can find more takers based on the threat perception, he said.

Further he noted that along with global countries India aims to develop a vaccine for any kind of pandemic causing diseases, within 100 days.

Amid the ongoing Nipah virus cases in India, Bahl said also noted that India is procuring 20 more doses from Australia.

Bahl said that the M102.4 antibody, tested on 14 people globally and found safe, that is no one died, by the University of Queensland in Australia.

It will be administered on “compassionate ground”, as there has been no knowledge of its side effects, and will be decided by the Kerala government and doctors there.

“Currently India has doses for 10 people, we have requested for 10 more people,” Bahl said. Each person requires two doses, and so far it has not been administered to anyone in India, he added.

The vaccine was developed by Queensland researchers in three batches and stored in minus 80 temperature and is stable for five years. India first received the vaccine in 2018, but couldn’t use it as the Nipah virus cases died down by then.

In addition, the ICMR has also deployed it’s first mobile BSIII (Biosafety level-3) laboratory in Kozhikode for on ground testing of the cases.

(IANS)

Tags: COVID StrainCovid VaccineIndian Council of Medical Research
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