The whole world is now hoping for a vaccine to prevent a new corona-virus epidemic. Hundreds of organizations from different countries of the world have already embarked on that task, some of which have gone a long way. Meanwhile, a Bangladeshi company has stated that it has joined the race to make a vaccine. Globe Biotech Limited, an affiliate of the pharmaceutical company Globe Pharmaceuticals, claimed in a press conference in Dhaka on Thursday that they have started the work of making a vaccine.
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| Globe Biotech Limited, Press conference |
Globe Pharma, a subsidiary of the company that has been manufacturing drugs in the country since 1986, says it has been working on the vaccine since March 8. They are also optimistic about bringing it to the market in the next 6 to 7 months.
However, the Department of Drug Administration and the Bangladesh Medical Research Council said they did not know of any vaccine for Covid-19 in the country.
Globe Pharmaceuticals' head office in Tejgaon said at a press conference, the discovery of the vaccine was overseen by Globe Biotech CEO Dr. Kakon Nag and COO said. Nazneen Sultana.
Globe Pharmaceuticals Chairman at the press conference. Director Mamunur Rashid Kiran was also present along with Harunur Rashid. Kiran is an Awami League MP from Noakhali constituency.
At the press conference, Harun said that they have conducted a preliminary test of their vaccine on animals at the institute's research center at Rupganj in Narayanganj. Now the rest of the work is going on in Globe Biotech's lab in Tejgaon.
"People around the world are devastated by the coronavirus outbreak," he said. So instead of relying on other countries for national and international needs, we have started our regular research as well as research work on making Covid-19 disease detection kits, vaccines and medicines. ”
Globe Biotech Ltd.'s head of research and development, Dr.Asif Mahmood told reporters about the vaccine. .
He said they had been "successful" in testing the vaccine on rabbits. They are hopeful that it will be successful in human body too.
At the press conference, he said that according to the US National Center for Biotechnology Information or NCBI virus database, 5,843 complete genome sequences have been submitted worldwide till Tuesday. Of these, 6 have been submitted from Bangladesh.
“By checking the sequence with the Bio-informatics tool, we confirm our ticker target. I have submitted the complete coding sequence of that target to the NCBI virus database in the United States, which has already been recognized and published by the NCBI. ”
Dr. Asif said they started testing the possible vaccine on rabbits on June 10 after completing preliminary work on March 8.
"We isolated them on the 10th and on June 12 we did the pre-immune serum collection. I did the analysis after 14 days. ”
Vaccines for any disease are tested experimentally in the human body after passing various stages of testing, which are considered as vaccines only after successful approval of the concerned authorities.
Asif said they would conduct another clinical trial on the animal as per the rules.
"It will take us six to eight weeks. We will now take the matter to the concerned department of the government. We will then take the next step according to the guidelines given to them. The protocol will be prepared soon and handed over to the concerned government authorities for clinical trials on human bodies. ”
However, according to the protocol, they have not yet sought any permission from the Department of Drug Administration and the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC).
Since the invention of the vaccine by the big companies of different countries of the world, news of various developments have been coming in the media regularly, they are also reporting it. But the announcement of the Bangladeshi company came suddenly.
If you want to know, the director of the Department of Drug Administration. Ayub Hossain told on media, "Officially, no one has informed us about this. We don't know anything about it either. ”
In this regard, the director of the Bangladesh Medical Research Council, Prof. Dr. Mahmud Uz Jahan told on media:
"We need ethical clearance from here for the clinical trial. But they did not take such permission from us. Maybe they did a trial on an animal in their lab. Now he will get permission before the human trial. ”
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