World Health Organization (WHO) today approved the emergency use of the Covaxin anticovid vaccine, produced by Indian laboratories Bharat Biotech, the seventh to achieve this approval from the Geneva-based agency.
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The Indian vaccine thus enters the portfolio of the WHO, which until now included those made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Sinopharm.
The emergency use approval gives these vaccines the possibility of entering the COVAX program, created by the WHO in cooperation with other agencies to distribute low-cost and equitable doses of vaccines against the COVID-19 all over the world.
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As in the previous cases, a group of technical advisers from the WHO examined the quality, efficacy and safety standards of the vaccine, developed based on inactivated versions of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, causing del COVID-19.
This vaccine is 78% effective, and the WHO recommends administering it in two doses, at least two weeks apart between the first and second.
According to the organization it is “Extremely suitable for low- and middle-income countries because of its ease of storage.”
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