Last Updated on January 5, 2024 by The Health Master
Indigenously developed Zydus Cadila C-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D has received approval for Emergency Use Authorisation from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and it will be administered to people 12 years and above, the Department of Biotechnology said on Friday.
This is the world’s first DNA-based vaccine against the C-19 virus, and this three-dose vaccine when injected produces the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and elicits an immune response, which plays a vital role in protection from the disease as well as viral clearance, it said.
The government’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) also said that the “plug-and-play” technology on which the plasmid DNA platform is based can be easily adapted to deal with mutations in the virus, such as those already occurring.
“Zydus Cadila has received approval for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for ZyCoV-D today i.e. 20/08/2021, the world’s first and India’s indigenously developed DNA-based vaccine for C-19 to be administered in humans including children and adults 12 years and above,” it said.
The vaccine has been developed in partnership with the DBT under Mission C-19 Suraksha, the department said.
“It has been implemented by the BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council) and ZyCoV-D has been supported under the C-19 Research Consortia through National Biopharma Mission for preclinical studies, Phase I and Phase II clinical trials and under the Mission C-19 Suraksha for Phase III Clinical Trial,” the DBT said.
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