India to treat homegrown COVID-19 vaccine same as AstraZeneca's

Indian health advocacy groups, watchdogs and opposition politicians have questioned the local vaccine’s approval, which came just a day after the authorities asked Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech for more evidence it would work.

India will treat a domestic COVID-19 vaccine “equally” with a prominent global one, even though the homegrown drug’s efficacy has not been proven, and people will have no choice which they one they get, a top government vaccine official told Reuters.