Bhubaneswar: The Indian Council for Research (ICMR) has made collaboration with Bharat Biotech for the development of the Covid-19 vaccine. Covaxin, the vaccine is developed by Bharat Biotech. ICMR has selected 12 medical institutes across the country to trial the vaccine. In Odisha IMS( Institutes of Medical Sciences ) and SUM hospitals is chosen for the human trial of the vaccine.
The human trial of India’s first indigenous vaccine will begin on Monday in Bhubaneswar’s IMS and SUM hospital. The volunteers who are interested can register online at ptctu.soa.ac.in under the section register for clinical trials. Volunteers must be disease-free. They can screen themselves through simple questions asked on the website.