The COVID-19 pandemic has actually triggered regulators across the world to provide emergency usage authorisation for particular drugs and trials on possible vaccines to accelerate the approval process without jeopardizing on objectively examining whether the prospective vaccine, or investigational drug, supplies some additional advantage or reprieve, over being defenceless.
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” There is most likely to be an assistance file for COVID vaccines in a couple of days released by the Central Drug Standards and Control Organisation,” said Secretary in the Department of Biotechnology Renu Swarup.
