10-city large Covid vaccine trials
(WorldNews India)

India’s department of biotechnology has selected 10 cities where several thousand healthy volunteers could join the anticipated large-scale clinical trials to assess the efficacy of candidate vaccines against Covid-19. A department of biotechnology (DBT) expert panel has identified Hyderabad, Palwal (Haryana), Pune, Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu) and Vellore as the first set of “field sites” for large-scale — also called Phase 3 — clinical trials and long-term epidemiological studies of the coronavirus infection. Clinical research institutions at each of these sites...