Ahmedabad: Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN arrives at Sola Civil Hospital, Trials to begin soon

On Nov 24, 2020

Ahmedabad : People are eagerly waiting for the corona vaccine. Vaccine trials are taking place in different countries. According to sources, the corona vaccine has arrived at Ahmedabad airport via flight from Delhi at 5.30 pm this evening and from there the vaccine will go to Sola Civil hospital. According to sources, about 1000 volunteers at Sola Civil will be vaccinated against coronavirus.

Vaccine will be stored in cold storage
Ethical and Scientific Committee has approved the trial of Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN. Separate storage arrangements have been made to maintain the cold chain of this vaccine. The temperature will be set in cold storage at 2 to 8 degrees. The committee will meet for two days and then the volunteer will be given a dose of the vaccine for trial.

Vaccine shots will be given to 1000 volunteers, one hour observation will be done
1000 volunteers are on standby for testing of corona vaccine at Sola Civil Hospital. Each volunteer will be kept under observation for one hour after being vaccinated. One thousand volunteers have been pre-determined for the third phase of the vaccine trial. Only healthy people will be vaccinated. After an hour of observation they will be let go. The effects of the regular vaccine will then be monitored by a team from Sola Civil.

Formation of Committee for Supervision of COVAXIN
A meeting was held in Sola Civil a few days ago regarding COVAXIN trial. In which the Ethical Committee and Scientific Committee have been formed. Which will process the storage and receipt of the vaccine as well as who will carry out the process until the volunteer is vaccinated. All supervision of COVAXIN will be done by this committee, which has received approval. Currently Sola Civil has started the process of how to store the vaccine.

Vaccine trials will resume in the state
Testing of the third phase of corona vaccine, which has been postponed due to increasing cases of corona infection in Gujarat, will now start anytime after the middle of this week. Earlier, the test was scheduled to start from last Tuesday, but due to an increase in cases of corona in Gujarat, hospitals were overcrowded and the test was not conducted, state government sources said.