vaccinated against Covid-19 by September this year, said Priya Abraham, the director of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)’s National Institute of Virology (Pune).
As per Abrahan, the phase 2-3 clinical trials for the vaccines are currently underway on children. "Hopefully the results will be available soon and they will be presented to regulators.
Probably by September or just after September, we may have a vaccine for children… this is Covaxin," she said in an interview to India Science, an OTT platform of the Department of Science and Technology.
The NIV is a body under the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) under the Ministry of Health. Last month, AIIMS director Randeep Guleria had said that Bharat Biotech's Covaxin