{"id":89454,"date":"2020-04-21T02:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14936"},"modified":"2020-04-21T02:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:56:18","slug":"covid-19-govt-sets-up-national-vaccine-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covid-19-govt-sets-up-national-vaccine-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Govt sets up national vaccine task force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Government of India has announced the setting up of a new task force to work on the development of vaccines and potential drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Chairman: <\/strong>It is co-chaired by Vinod Paul, member NITI Aayog and Professor K Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific advisor to the government.<\/li><li><strong>Other members: <\/strong>It will include representatives of the Ministry of Ayush, Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR), Department of biotechnology and Drug controller general of India(DGCI) among others.<\/li><li><strong>Objective:<\/strong>To work as a bridge between academia, research institutions, and international collaborations in the field of drug testing and vaccine development.<\/li><li><strong>Coordinating agency: <\/strong>Department of biotechnology would act as a nodal agency to identify the pathway for vaccine development, monitor progress of efforts and provide government facilitation.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Government of India has announced the setting up of a new task force to work on the development of vaccines and potential drugs. Facts: Chairman: It is co-chaired by Vinod Paul, member NITI Aayog and Professor K Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific advisor to the government. Other members: It will include representatives of the Ministry&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covid-19-govt-sets-up-national-vaccine-task-force\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid-19: Govt sets up national vaccine task force<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[1087,6898],"class_list":["post-89454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-covid-19","tag-national-vaccine-task-force","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704888207},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}