Moderna gets approval as fourth vaccine in India, Pfizer may also come soon

 New Delhi | The Center on Tuesday gave its approval to launch the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in the Indian market and with this Pfizer Vaccine is now the next in line. To defeat Corona, the country is now going to get the fourth vaccine as a modern one. Earlier the Covishield of Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech's Co vaccine and Russia's Sputnik V have been approved to be given to people in India. At the same time, on Tuesday, the vaccine of Moderna was also approved. Not only this, soon India can also get the vaccine of Pfizer.

 NITI Aayog member V.K. Announcing this in a press conference, Paul said that Moderna has been approved as a new drug, which is the first internationally developed Covid vaccine.

Paul, however, clarified that the new drug is allowed for emergency use and Moderna will be given with two doses. He said, we have Covaxin, Covishield, Sputnik-V and Moderna vaccines available right now. Soon we will also finalize a deal with Pfizer for the vaccine.

 Apart from this, DCGI has allowed Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Cipla to import Moderna Vaccine into India. Cipla had sought permission to import and market the US vaccine in India a day earlier.

 Apart from this, he also cleared the confusion about the effect of the vaccine on pregnant women.

 The introduction of Moderna Vaccine is an important step in India's accelerated immunization drive to vaccinate more people at the earliest. Besides allaying fears of a possible third wave of the pandemic, the new drug will undoubtedly help ease supply constraints.

 Let us tell you that Moderna's vaccine relies on messenger RNA, which programs cells to develop immunity against the corona virus. The results of clinical trials conducted regarding this vaccine show that this vaccine is more than 90 percent effective against cases with symptoms of corona infection.

 Earlier in the day, Johnson & Johnson said it was in talks with the Indian government to explore ways to expedite the distribution of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine in the country.

 In the last 24 hours, India has given vaccine doses to 52,76,457 people, after which a total of 31.90 crore (32,90,29,510) vaccine doses have been given so far.