A novel coronavirus( COVID-19) vaccine will take at least 12 months to be commercially offered and a reasonable due date for it would be some time next year, a group of government officials notified the Parliamentary Panel on Science and Innovation headed by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh at a meeting held in the Parliament Home complex on Friday. Certainly, even if gradually: On a COVID-19 vaccine
This is contrary to the letter sent out by Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Dr. Balram Bhargava, exhorting organizations included in the Covaxin trial to all set the vaccine for “public health use by August 15”.
‘ Asked specifically’
” We asked them pointedly about the timeline for developing the vaccin