If the world is to gain access to a vaccine for coronavirus( COVID-19), there is a likelihood it will pass through the doors of the Serum Institute of India here.
The institute, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume, is dealing with numerous prospects, including possibly mass-producing the AstraZeneca/Oxford University one, in addition to establishing its own.
The efforts are partially being shepherded by Umesh Shaligram, the R&D head. The institute is a private business but every day, quickly prior to midnight, he gets a WhatsApp message from the federal government requesting for updates.
” We have started to see approvals come through in days, even on a Sunday night, for trials and things like that,” he stated, noting a few of these processes usually took 4 to six months