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India's 1st coronavirus vaccine for kids could be ready by September, said Dr. Randeep Guleria, AIIMS chief said. "COVAXIN's data for children after completion of Phase 2/3 trials will be available by September, approval is expected the same month."
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For context, AIIMS-Delhi had this month started screening children for the clinical trials of COVAXIN. A week before that, AIIMS-Patna had begun this jab's clinical trials on children. #AIIMS #clinicaltrial

Further, #BharatBiotech, which developed this vaccine, had last month obtained permission from the Drugs Controller General of India to carry out its trials on children. COVAXIN is India's only fully indigenous COVID-19 jab so far. #DCGI

In fact, Ahmedabad-based firm Zydus Cadila is also testing its COVID-19 vaccine on children aged 12-18. Further, India might grant regulatory approval to Pfizer, whose COVID-19 vaccine is already approved for children in many countries, implying that could be another option.

Until recently, it was being widely believed that a new wave of COVID-19 infections would affect children harder. However, experts have said there is no data available yet to prove that theory. #ThirdWaveCovid

To recall, India had faced the world's worst coronavirus outbreak earlier this year, witnessing lakhs of cases and thousands of fatalities daily. The situation has since improved. In the past 24 hours, the country reported 50,848 new cases and 1,358 deaths.