New Delhi: On a day when the UK approved use of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children above the age of 12 years, the central government said clinical trials of Covaxin and the vaccine developed by Zydus are on for children in India.
“Not only Covaxin is conducting child trials—and they will not take long because they are all immunogenic trials—but also Zydus vaccine is already being tested on children. So, when Zydus comes for licensure, hopefully in the next two weeks, maybe we will also have enough data on the view whether that vaccine can be given to children,” NITI Aayog (health) member VK Paul said during the briefing of the health ministry on Friday.