The Centre has invested in developing a strain specific vaccine that would help in countering the changing nature of coronavirus. An official who facilitated developing this ecosystem for second generation vaccines told India Today that research and development work is underway to develop strain-specific vaccines in India. A bivalent vaccine will target the specific spike mutations seen in the Omicron …
An international coalition has set out what it calls a "moonshot" plan to ensure the development of new vaccines against emerging epidemics within 100 days. Key points: CEPI says more needs to be done urgently to mitigate the threat posed by new COVID-19 variants Vaccines would be developed in about a third of the time it took to make the …
