INDO ISRAEL VACCINE

Subject : Science & tech

Context : India’s Premas Biotech, Israel’s Oramed jointly develop oral vaccine for COVID-19.

Concept :

An Indian-Israeli collaboration has reportedly developed an oral vaccine, one that can be swallowed like a pill instead of being injected as is the norm, for COVID-19.
A preliminary test in animals showed that the vaccine produced the expected antibodies that confer protection.
However the findings have not been reported in a scientific publication yet and can’t be independently verified.
The nascent COVID-19 vaccine candidate is a “protein-based VLP (Virus Like Particle) vaccine candidate” that generates “triple protection” against the SARS CoV-2 virus, that is, it is able to target the spike, membrane, and envelope proteins of the coronavirus.
These three proteins are critical to the structure of the coronavirus and give it form as well as the ability to replicate inside the body.