The Indian government has granted permission to Hetero Biopharma for the export of Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik Light. A vaccine production partner of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Hetero Biopharma will export a total of four million doses of the vaccine to Russia, PTI reported. Sputnik Light is the first component of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine and is not authorised for emergency usage in India.
Elixirgen Therapeutics has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with an undisclosed pharmaceutical firm for the rights to market its Covid-19 vaccine EXG-5003 internationally, except in Japan. The intradermal, temperature-controllable, self-replicating RNA vaccine expresses the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein’s receptor binding domain. It can elicit strong cellular immunity to offer wider protection against variants. The company is presently dosing subjects in a Phase I/II clinical trial of the vaccine in Japan.
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Indian firms Aurobindo Pharma and MSN Laboratories have separately sought permission from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation’s Subject Expert Committee to conclude the late-stage clinical trials of Merck’s investigational oral antiviral therapy, molnupiravir, for the treatment of moderate Covid-19 patients. The move comes after Merck reported that the drug demonstrated favourable results in a trial involving subjects with mild-to-moderate disease.
