New Delhi: Bharat Biotech India Ltd’s covid-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’ has become the first candidate developed in India to receive the Drug Controller General of India’s approval to enter human trials.The DGCI has approved the company’s application to conduct a phase I and II clinical trial of its vaccine candidate ‘Covaxin’, which it developed in in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research’s National Institute of Virology (NIV), the company said in a release on Monday.The indigenous, inactivated vaccine was developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech’s facility located in Genome Valley in Hyderabad and human clinical trials are scheduled to start across India in July, the company said.“We are proud to announce ‘Covaxin’,.

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Hotels in Goa ready to resume operations, awaiting govt's COVID-19 guidelines

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eCR Now: COVID-19 Electronic Case Reporting for Healthcare Providers

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Three more lives lost to coronavirus at Greater Manchester's hospitals

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Watch live as future of Manchester Airport as it recovers from effects of Covid-19 is debated in parliament

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‘Makes me mad as hell:‘ College students hold parties to purposely get coronavirus

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Florida reports record-breaking 10,109 new cases of COVID-19

COVID-19 in the state.On Thursday, the Florida Department of Health reported a record-breaking 10,109 new cases of COVID-19 since the same time the day before, as well as 67 new Florida-resident deaths, 1 new non-resident death, and 325 new hospitalizations.The new statistics bring the total number of coronavirus infections to 169,106 since the virus was first detected in the state on March 1, as well as a total of 3,617 resident deaths and 15,150 hospitalizations.On Wednesday, the FDOH began reporting resident and non-resident deaths as separate categories.

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