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Bharat Biotech Gets Indian Approval for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

July 1, 2020

Indian drugmaker Bharat Biotech has received approval to begin clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. It is the first trial approval for a domestic vaccine candidate.

The Hyderabad-based company is developing Covaxin, an inactivated vaccine derived from a strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus isolated at India’s National Institute of Virology.  

The phase 1/2 trials are scheduled to get underway across India in July.   

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