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Approximately 1,000 human volunteers are participating in clinical trials for each of the two indigenous Indian vaccine : DG, ICMR

Media briefing on the current COVID19 situation in the country :

  • India’s Daily Growth Rate of New Cases Declining, Total recovered cases about 1.8 times the number of Active Cases.
  • 20 States/UTs have higher Recovery rate than the national average of 63%.
  • 22 States are currently performing more than 140 tests per day per million population or those states carrying out Comprehensive Testing in accordance with the guidance note issued by @WHO in the context of COVID19.
  • COVID19 cases per million in India is amongst the lowest in the world; Deaths per million population in India too is amongst the lowest in the world.
  • Despite being the second-most populous country of the world, the daily growth rate of new COVID19 cases in India has been coming down continuously from around 38.2% in March to 3.24% on 12th July 2020.
  • In many states, no. of daily discharges from hospitals is more than no. of daily admission. 86% of total active COVID19 cases are confined to just 10 states.
  • 22 states are doing more than 140 COVID19 tests per day/million as per Comprehensive Testing guidance note by WHO Centre is asking the remaining states and UTs to increase testing accordingly.
  • 60% of the vaccines supplied in the world are of Indian origin, India is perceived and is an important player in the vaccine supply for the world.
  • Any #COVID19 vaccine produced or developed in any part of the world will ultimately have to be scaled up either by India or by China Every country which is developing vaccine is in communication with India since they are aware India is a major producer.
  • Two indigenous Indian Candidate vaccines have got clearance to start early phase human trials this month. Approximately 1,000 human volunteers are participating in clinical trials for each of this two indigenous vaccine.
  • Pre-clinical experiments for these as well as other vaccines are also being done at NIV, Pune.
  • Fast-tracking COVID19 vaccine development is a moral duty. Russia and China have fast-tracked the process, USA and UK too are trying to fast-track the development programme India too is trying to fast-track its two indigenous vaccine candidates.

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