CENTRE LAUNCHES NATIONAL COVID-19 CLINICAL REGISTRY AND VACCINE PORTAL

NEW DELHI: Union health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Monday launched the National Covid-19 Registry and a vaccine portal aimed at collecting quality real-time clinical data on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients from hospitals and laboratories. It will also document India’s efforts towards developing vaccines against the viral disease. The need for maintaining a registry was felt as documentation and description of people infected by Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and their course of illness is imperative for obtaining useful information about the disease and its behaviour in various groups of patients.

The vaccine web portal that was also launched alongside has detailed information on the development of Covid-19 vaccine candidates, especially the three candidates that are currently under advanced stages of human trials in India.