Vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India said Wednesday that ongoing clinical trials in India for the Covid-19 vaccine, developed through the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, would continue and be affected by AstraZeneca’s announcement to discontinue trials due to an observed adverse effect. vaccine trial in the UK.
None of the participants in the Indian of the Serum trials had problems, the company said.
Serum partners with AstraZeneca to test and manufacture Covid-19 vaccine doses in India at its Pune plant.
But ICMR scientist Tarun Bhatnagar said it was a multi-site test, regardless of the company’s resolution on one site that it deserves to apply to all, which would have an effect on testing in India. the adverse reaction was related to the vaccine and the trial was stopped to locate it, Bhatnagar said.
“If the link between the vaccine and the reaction is established, we want to see if a similar adverse occasion can occur in the Indian population or if it is similar to an express population,” Bhatnagar said. It’s also unclear whether the reaction came here, after the first coup or the moment, Bhatnagar said.
The Oxford vaccine is composed of two doses and the dose is taken 28 days after the first injection. There is still no official resolution, as the full main points about the unwanted incident and the number of other people affected are not known, Bhatnagar said.
Commenting on AstraZeneca’s decision to stop trials in the UK, a Serum spokesman said: “We can’t comment much on trials in the UK, but they stopped for additional review and we hope to restart soon. As for India’s demands, they are ongoing and we have not encountered any problems. “
AstraZeneca said Tuesday that global trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine were on hold. He said they were voluntarily postponing vaccination to review protection knowledge through an independent committee. The company said that this was a regime action and that it occurred whenever there was an unexplained disease in any of the trials. It added that they would seek to speed up the review and minimize any possible effects on the timetable for the trial.
AstraZeneca and Oxford had begun phase 3 trials for a Covid-19 vaccine in August 2020 with trials in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa and India, covering 30,000 participants at one hundred sites to assess the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of the ‘AZD1222’ vaccine for the prevention of Covid-19.
A total of 1,600 trial participants are recruited in India at 17 sites. Approximately one hundred patients have won the vaccines, however, Serum has been reduced to major percentage points in the trials so far.
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