Coronavirus vaccine production will start in 3 weeks: Serum Institute

Hopes to bring it to the market by October if human clinical trials are successful

Vaccine major Serum Institute of India on Sunday said it planned to start production of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University in the next two to three weeks and hoped to bring it to the market by October if the human clinical trials were successful.
 

The Pune-based company has partnered with Oxford University as one of the seven global institutions manufacturing the vaccine.
 

“Our team has been working closely with Dr Hill from Oxford University, and we are expecting to initiate production of the vaccine in 2-3 weeks and produce 5 million doses per month for the first 6