“However, to the best of our knowledge, ours is the only reported inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate inducing cell-mediated responses and humoral neutralising responses,” the study noted.
The most common adverse event was pain at the injection site, followed by headache, fatigue, and fever. All were mild or moderate, and more frequent after the first dose. The only serious adverse event of viral pneumonitis which was reported, has been deemed unrelated to the vaccine, said the findings.
On Sunday, 3 January, Covaxin became India’s first indigenously produced vaccine against the novel coronavirus to get ‘restricted approval ’emergency approval for public health interest.’ The vaccine has been developed by pharma major Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology (NIV).
But this approval raised many questions due to a lack of sufficient safety or efficacy data from large-scale trials. Dr Anant Bhan, Adjunct…