Cipla gets DCGI nod to import Moderna’s Covid vaccine for restricted emergency use in India

Mansi Khandelwal, INN/New Delhi,

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An Emergency use authorization (EUA) is given to import Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine by a Mumbai-based pharmaceutical firm in the country by DCGI (Drugs Controller General of India) on Tuesday making it the fourth vaccine in the country.

In a press conference help, with NITI Ayog’s member V.K. Paul pronounced that some final modifications are being worked on the same, also he added that the country is talking for the import of Pfizer and JJ to be added to our list of vaccines already containing three – Covaxin, Covisheild, and Sputnik. He also added that the Moderna’s vaccine will be used as the ready-to-move injectable vaccine which will be having safe storage of seven months at the given prescribed conditions and 30 days in the normal conditions.

Announcing the things Mr. Paul said “We are working to ensure that India can manufacture this vaccine here. We are also looking at increasing the production of vaccines that are being manufactured in our country to boost availability. Permission for restricted use in emergency situations has been granted for the Moderna vaccine keeping in mind the public interest. The firm has to submit a safety assessment of the vaccine to the first 100 beneficiaries before rolling out the vaccine for further immunization programs, according to the approval order. It, however, does not need any bridging study.”

Dr. Paul also added that the vaccine is permitted to receive the application from Cipla “the Indian partner of Moderna” which follows that the vaccine is authorized by the drug regulators for the restricted emergency use. Except for this Dr. Paul also talked about the spread of Delta plus variant of covid in India, he said that 51 cases are registered by June 28 from 11 states and one Union territory those are – Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Kerela, Gujrat, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, Rajasthan, MP, and Jammu.

Cipla brought his point up while applying for the license at DCGI on April, 15 and June, 1 which mentioned that once the vaccine will be approved by the USFDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) for EUA, there will not be any need left for a post-approval bridging trial and the test by Central laboratory of the vaccine.

According to the reports by World Health Organization or WHO, the efficacy of EUA by Moderna is expected approximately 94.1% against the SARS-Cov-2 just after the initial 14 days of injection of the first dose. Reports say that the new variants of covid do not alter the effectiveness of the Moderma mRNA EUA vaccine.