Write in brief about each type of vaccine for COVID-19, being
manufactured and used all over the world.
Answers
MANUFACTURER COMPANY IN INDIA
At least seven Indian pharms companies are working to develop a vaccine against coronavirus as they join global efforts to find a preventive to check the spread of the deadly virus that has already infected more than 14 million globally.
Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute, Zydus Cadila, Panacea Biotec, Indian Immunologicals, Mynvax and Biological E are among the domestic pharma firms working on the coronavirus vaccines in India.
BHARAT BIOTECH
Bharat Biotech has received approval to conduct phase I and II clinical trial for its vaccine candidate Covaxin.
In 2020, BioNTech, in conjunction with Pfizer, developed the RNA vaccine BNT162b2 for preventing COVID-19 infections, which offers a 95% efficacy. On 2 De cember 2020
It was the first mRNA vaccine ever authorized. Some days later the vaccine also got an emergency approval in the United States, Canada, and Switzer
ASTRZENECA
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company.