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India to launch ‘second home made’ Covid vaccine

New Delhi: Very soon India will launch the ‘second made in India’ Covid vaccine. The union government has signed a deal with Biological-E, a Hyderabad-based company for this. The union government has signed a deal for 300 million doses of vaccine. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will pay Rs.1500 crore to the company for the vaccine.

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The vaccine being developed by Biological-E is a RBD protein sub-unit vaccine. It is under Phase-3 clinical trials. The vaccine will be available in the country in the coming months. The doses will be manufactured and stockpiled by Biological-E from August to December.

This will be the second homemade vaccine after the first homemade vaccine which was developed by Bharat Biotech by the brand name Covaxin .

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