Mansukh Mandaviya visited ZYCoV-D Vaccine Manufacturing Plant

Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State for Chemical & Fertilizers and Ports, Shipping & Waterways recently visited Zydus Biotech Park at Ahmedabad.

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The Zydus Cadila is the developer of the ‘ZyCov-D’ which will be world’s first DNA-based Covid-19 vaccine.

ZyCoV-D is a DNA plasmid based COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Cadila Healthcare with support from the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council.

The plasmids here are coded with the instructions to make the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. Vaccination gives the code to cells in the recipient’s body that begin making the spike protein of the virus.