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NEW DELHI: India\u2019s Covid<\/a> diplomacy has moved beyond HCQ and paracetamol to ensure that the country can leverage its position as the world\u2019s largest vaccine<\/a> manufacturer to be part of the search and distribution of the Covid vaccine.
<\/br>After sustained conversations with their counterparts in key countries, the government has zeroed in on the Indo-Pacific group to cooperate on looking for a vaccine. The key players have been foreign minister S Jaishankar<\/a> and foreign secretary Harsh Shringla as well as the Prime Minister\u2019s principal scientific adviser Dr K Vijayaraghavan<\/a> and the government\u2019s department of biotechnology.
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<\/br>Talking to TOI in an exclusive chat, Vijayaraghavan said, \u201cIndia will have a voice \u2013 even if there is no \u201cIndian\u201d vaccine \u2014 in terms of distribution because India\u2019s role in providing vaccines to others will be very important.\u201d
<\/br>Shringla has continued a sustained and regular conversation with his US counterpart Steve Biegun, as well as officials from Japan, Australia and South Korea, while Jaishankar has added political heft to conversations with US, Israel, the Quad countries, Brazil and South Korea. India, officials said, would work with \u201clike-minded countries\u201d on not only vaccine development, but production and distribution.
<\/br>Vijayaraghavan says, \u201cGlobally there are more than 125 vaccine development programmes today. \u2026 of these, 10 are in the first stage, eight in phase two (animal and limited human trials) and two in phase 3 (larger-scale human trials). We will know the results of the phase 3 trials in a few months time.\u201d
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Apart from the Oxford University programme where India has a large presence and which is currently the most advanced, getting into phase 3, \u201cThere is a programme in the US called Warp Speed which combines phase 1 and 2. Vaccines in these programmes include those by Johnson & Johnson and Merck and others. A Chinese one also going into phase 3. There is an Australian one, also going into phase 3, by Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute in Australia. That\u2019s not really a vaccine for Covid 19, but it is new kind of BCG vaccine,\u201d Vijayaraghavan said.
<\/br>Interestingly, while India has a presence in most of the international vaccine development programmes, it has no presence in the two Chinese vaccine programmes.
<\/br>Vijayaraghavan observes, \u201cThe size and extraordinary capability of the Indian vaccine manufacturing effort in bulk are enormous and well appreciated. Apart from the big multinationals, Brazil, Indonesia, China and India have enormous capabilities. India has the largest. So India will not be ignored no matter who makes the vaccine.\u201d
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