International Journal of Immunological Nursing
COVID-19 Vaccine in India—A Comprehensive Update
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 has sabotage the public health,economy and day to day lives of people and erupted into a pandemic. The government adopted strictmethods like lockdown of states and countries to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The health sector hastaken active part to combat COVID-19, in spite of shortage of equipment and resources. There werechallenges for vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2 amid all the chaos of the ongoing crisis. Newlydeveloped COVID-19 vaccines required careful safety evaluations to prevent the events that may leadto increased infectivity or inflammation. It is high time to pay increased attention to the different vaccinestrategies such as whole-virus vaccines, recombinant protein subunit vaccines, and nucleic acidvaccines under evaluation at clinical and preclinical stage as the number of COVID-19 cases keepsincreasing in the world. This review discusses the use of vaccine, different phases of vaccinedevelopment and a comprehensive status of developed COVID-19 vaccine in India is highlighted.References (32)
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