India will emerge as a manufacturing hub after vaccine against COVID is developed: DG CSIR

Director-General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Dr Shekhar Mande on Thursday told Republic TV that India has potential of becoming a manufacturing hub after a vaccine for COVID-19 is produced. 

Dr Mande me statement while answering question, Wher India will be able to expeditiously provide vaccine to its people?

"So on vaccine front re are two front-runners at present. China and US have finished phase 1 clinical trials and are getting rey for phase 2 clinical trials. We have to wait and watch, in few months we will kw results. Indian companies are extremely capable of producing large amount of vaccine, so as and when an approval comes for vaccine, I am sure Indian companies will go all out. India will become a global hub for vaccine manufacturing. 

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India is making several efforts in producing a vaccine against COVID-19. Whereas it is working on an indigeus product, at same time, it has also collaborated at various global platforms to cultivate vaccine against COVID-19 which has rattled world.  India has as many as 30 groups, including industries and acemics who are making relentless efforts to develop a vaccine to combat Coronavirus. AICTE and CSIR have held drug discovery hackathon to train students to do computational drug discovery amid COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump's ministration has selected five companies to produce a vaccine for Coronavirus, while Brazil has allowed human clinical trials for candidate being developed by Oxford University. Across globe, 120 vaccines to combat Coronavirus are under process.

Globally, over 6,430,705 COVID cases have been reported so far. death toll stands at 3,85,947. However, on a positive te, 2,804,982 people have recovered from dely virus. 

spike of cases in India has been witnessed after restrictions imposed amid Nationwide lockdown to curb spre of coronavirus were relaxed in fourth phase of lockdown by MHA to revive ecomy which took major hit post curfew.

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