Government has set up an National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19. The purpose of the group is to keep India in the forefront of any ongoing effort worldwide to innovate, prepare, produce and launch candidate vaccines to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, for India and for the world.

 
Through the inputs and support of the External Affairs Ministry, this Expert Group will help to connect Indian companies that are interested in any candidate vaccines, and facilitate the process of ensuring that the relevant testing data is made available to our regulatory agencies.
 

Replying to a media query this evening, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that the regulator can then decide on the nature of trials that may be needed before a decision can be taken on the use of any candidate vaccine in India.