The first Indigenous vaccine of COVID-19 developed in India was ______
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → COVAXIN
An indigenous vaccine is one researched and developed in India, not only manufactured here. COVAXIN was developed by Bharat Biotech, Hyderabad, together with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and its National Institute of Virology, Pune. It is an inactivated (killed) whole-virus vaccine and received emergency-use approval in India in January 2021.
Note: This ‘current affairs’ question is from 2021, four years before this 2025 paper. NTA’s current affairs clock seems to run a few years slow.