India has 3 Covid-19 vaccines in different phases of clinical testing: ICMR

Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Health Ministry said the actual caseload of Covid-19 in the country today is 5,86,298 as more than 1.2 million people have already recovered

At present country has three Indian Covid-19 vaccines which are in different phases of clinical testing, said Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday.

"At the present moment, we have three Indian vaccines which are in different phases of clinical testing. The 2 vaccines- Bharat Biotech vaccine and DNA vaccine of Zydus Cadila have completed phase 1 and will begin phase 2 while third is Oxford vaccine," said Dr Balram Bhargava, DG, ICMR while addressing a press conference here.

"Oxford vaccine, being manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) got approval for phase 2 and 3 clinical trials, which