Mysore/Mysuru: The Phase-2 human trials of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’, manufactured at the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) will begin at Mysuru’s JSS Hospital and Medical College in a couple of days. The Institute is awaiting guidelines and samples from SII.
The JSS Hospital has been shortlisted to take up the COVID-19 vaccine trials. Speaking to Star of Mysore this morning, Director of JSS Hospital and Head of COVID-19 Testing Laboratory Col. (Retd) Dayanand said that the institution has been granted permission to conduct the human trials and ICMR and other statutory authorities have already inspected the facilities at the Institution.
