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Now that India has developed its first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, it has started its preparations to begin the much-awaited human clinical trials. Covaxin will be tested on more than 1100 people. The vaccine developed by the Bharat Biotech recently got the green signal from ICMR and the apex body has given nod to a total of 12 hospitals to begin preparations to conduct human clinical trials. Two of them include Hyderabad’s Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences and Patna-based All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) As per reports, the human trial will take at least 6 to 8 months to…