Who On Covaxin Vaccine Shot

The Indian Council of Medical Research, or ICMR, has distanced itself from a follow-up study by two Banaras Hindu University professors that said nearly a third of 926 individuals who got the India-made Covaxin shot reported serious side-effects.

The clearance for using Covaxin on children will take much less time, World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan told NDTV after the Bharat Biotech-manufactured vaccine's Emergency Use Listing.

The WHO has granted Covaxin an emergency use listing, sources said Wednesday, which means the 'made-in-India' vaccine will be recognised by other countries and Indians who received the shot need not self-quarantine or face restrictions abroad.

A World Health Organization technical advisory group was reviewing data on Covaxin shot against COVID-19 on Tuesday with a decision on its emergency use listing likely soon, a spokesperson said.

A Brazilian congressman who has denounced alleged wrongdoing in a 1.6 billion reais ($323 million) COVID-19 vaccine contract signed by Brazil's government arrived at a Senate commission inquiry on Friday wearing a bullet-proof vest for safety.

Those who have weaker immunity or are on a medicine that affects their immune system and people with allergies must not take the Covaxin shot, vaccine-makers Bharat Biotech warned on Monday in a fact-sheet, two days after India began mass vaccinations against Covid.

A security guard who was administered a shot of Covaxin at AIIMS here on Saturday was admitted at the hospital after he developed an allergic reaction as part of "severe" adverse events following immunisation.

Delhi is all set to roll-out the COVID-19 vaccines tomorrow at 81 centres and healthcare workers, who have been at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic, will be the ones to receives the shots first.

The Indian Council of Medical Research, or ICMR, has distanced itself from a follow-up study by two Banaras Hindu University professors that said nearly a third of 926 individuals who got the India-made Covaxin shot reported serious side-effects.

The clearance for using Covaxin on children will take much less time, World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan told NDTV after the Bharat Biotech-manufactured vaccine's Emergency Use Listing.

The WHO has granted Covaxin an emergency use listing, sources said Wednesday, which means the 'made-in-India' vaccine will be recognised by other countries and Indians who received the shot need not self-quarantine or face restrictions abroad.

A World Health Organization technical advisory group was reviewing data on Covaxin shot against COVID-19 on Tuesday with a decision on its emergency use listing likely soon, a spokesperson said.

A Brazilian congressman who has denounced alleged wrongdoing in a 1.6 billion reais ($323 million) COVID-19 vaccine contract signed by Brazil's government arrived at a Senate commission inquiry on Friday wearing a bullet-proof vest for safety.

Those who have weaker immunity or are on a medicine that affects their immune system and people with allergies must not take the Covaxin shot, vaccine-makers Bharat Biotech warned on Monday in a fact-sheet, two days after India began mass vaccinations against Covid.

A security guard who was administered a shot of Covaxin at AIIMS here on Saturday was admitted at the hospital after he developed an allergic reaction as part of "severe" adverse events following immunisation.

Delhi is all set to roll-out the COVID-19 vaccines tomorrow at 81 centres and healthcare workers, who have been at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic, will be the ones to receives the shots first.