AGRA: Around 24 pharma companies were conducting trials for the Covid-19 vaccine and the vaccines of six different companies would be made available in the market by the year-end, said Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday.
The health minister while inaugurating a Covid-19 diagnosis and research centre at the ICMR’s National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases in Agra, also reiterated that India is supplying vaccines to 60 countries.
Secretary, department of Health Research, and director general of ICMR, Prof. Balram Bhargava said, “ICMR has been very robust in managing Covid-19… it is the effort of ICMR which brought the vaccine for Covid-19 with 81% efficacy in a time-bound manner.”