Bhubaneswar Human clinical trial of India’s first potential anti-corona vaccine covaxin started at an institute here on Monday.
The corona vaccine’s human trial has started at Bhubaneswar’s Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital.
The principal investigator of the trial process, E. Venkata Rao, informed that many volunteers had been given covaxine.
He said that volunteers are subjected to an intensive screening process and several tests.
SUM Hospital is also among the 12 centers selected by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the first and second stage procedures.
Kovaxin is being developed in collaboration with Bharat Biotech, ICMR and National Institute of Virology (NIV).
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