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COVID-19 Vaccine in India—A Comprehensive Update

Sumity Arora

Abstract


The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 has sabotage the public health,
economy and day to day lives of people and erupted into a pandemic. The government adopted strict
methods like lockdown of states and countries to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The health sector has
taken active part to combat COVID-19, in spite of shortage of equipment and resources. There were
challenges for vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2 amid all the chaos of the ongoing crisis. Newly
developed COVID-19 vaccines required careful safety evaluations to prevent the events that may lead
to increased infectivity or inflammation. It is high time to pay increased attention to the different vaccine
strategies such as whole-virus vaccines, recombinant protein subunit vaccines, and nucleic acid
vaccines under evaluation at clinical and preclinical stage as the number of COVID-19 cases keeps
increasing in the world. This review discusses the use of vaccine, different phases of vaccine
development and a comprehensive status of developed COVID-19 vaccine in India is highlighted.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijin.v7i2.2001

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