Hyderabad: Fingers crossed as NIMS gets ready for Covid-19 vaccine trials

HYDERABAD: With Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) gearing up to begin the first stage of human trials for Covid-19 vaccine, two selected candidates are under observation and isolation.
The authorities have taken care to see they are in safe and healthy condition, atmosphere and do not contact the virus before being administrated the dose. The NIMS authorities said that about 20 volunteers had expressed interest through mails and phone calls.

Two young male candidates from Hyderabad were selected and their health samples were sent to Delhi for verification for final approval. “Once the final approval comes from Delhi on these two volunteers we will give them thevaccine dose. The vaccine is expected to reach us on Tuesday evening or Wednesday,” an official who is part of the vaccine trial process, told TOI.
After the first dose is given, the volunteers will be under observation for some time. “If everything goes well, we want to be the first centre in the country to give the first vaccine dose,” authorities told TOI.
The two volunteers will be given two types of doses, i.e. the placebo dose and theactive vaccine dose. The volunteers will be under observation for 24 hours to observe any negative reactions on them.
“If there is no adverse reaction then we will try the dose on the next set of volunteers,” officials said. The reason is to make sure too many people do not have any negative reaction due to them. The first level of safety of the vaccine will be be known within 10 days after starting the trial, they said.