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Covid-19: WHO trusts Indian vaccine industry, says official on delay in granting approval to Covaxin #IndiaNEWS
A World Health Organization official on Thursday said that the health body trusts the Indian vaccine industry to manufacture high quality antidotes, reported PTI. Mariangela Simao, the assistant director general of Access to Medicines and Health Products at the World Health Organization was responding to a journalist on the delay in granting emergency use listing approval to Bharat Biotech’s coronavirus jab Covaxin.“We are right now at the last stage of the assessment by external advisory group and we hope to have a final recommendation to the World Health Organization next week,â€? Simao said at a press briefing.India had applied to the World Health Organization for emergency use listing for Covaxin in April. Emergency use listing is a procedure by the global health body to approve vaccines and other products for use during public health emergencies. The duration of the emergency use listing process depends on the quality of the data submitted by the vaccine manufacturer.Last month, the World Health Organization had said that Bharat Biotech began submitting “rolling dataâ€? on July 6. In a rolling review, the global health body can analyse information when it comes in from an applicant, thus accelerating the process.On Tuesday, the World Health Organization’s technical advisory group had sought “additional clarificationp Èœ›ÛHš˜]š[ÝXÚÈÛÛ™XÝ‹‹”™XY[Ü™H

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