Express News Service
BENGALURU: While it is expected that the country will face a third wave by September, the chairman of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), Dr Narendra Kumar Arora, has said that India can expect at least six more vaccines to be available by then. Of the six vaccines in the pipeline is the world’s first DNA-plasmid vaccine by Zydus-Cadilla, which is made in India. The Health Ministry expects to procure 30-35 crore doses by July to enable vaccinating one crore people a day.
In a statement released to the media, from excerpts of an interview to Department of Science and Technology’s ‘Indian Science Channel’, Dr Arora, chairman of Covid-19 Working Group of the NTAGI, said, “The trials are quite encouraging. We are hopeful that they will be available by September.” Along with Zydus’s vaccine, the country is also expecting Biological E’s protein sub-unit vaccine. According to NTAGI, Biological E’s made-in-India vaccine is expe