Covaxin prepared from inactivated virus can provide protection against corona virus for at least six months. This is to say of Pushkar Sharma, director-in-charge of the National Institute of Immunology (NII).
Sharma was addressing the Annual General Meeting of the Society of NII on Sunday. He said that the immune system of the vaccine remembers the virus SARS-CoV-2 and its variant of concern, which causes the corona epidemic, and when the virus enters the body, it activates and kills it immediately. Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh presided over the general meeting.
Sharma said that in times of crisis, special efforts were made in the direction of research on anti-corona vaccine. He said that the inactivated virus vaccine covaxin produces strong immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its delta, alpha, beta and gamma variants that lasts for at least six months.
So far 96 countries around the world have given recognition to Covaxin
So far 96 countries around the world have recognized India's covaxin. Countries across the world are approving Indian COVID vaccination certificates. The 96 recognized countries include Canada, Belgium, Germany, USA, UK, France, Ireland, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Spain, Mali, Angola, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Hungary, Nigeria, Benin, Chad, Serbia, Poland, Slovak Republic Huh. Apart from these, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, Nicaragua Panama, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Commonwealth of Dominica, Lebanon, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Guatemala Haiti, Nepal Other countries include Iran, the State of Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, South Sudan, Australia, Sudan, Egypt, Mongolia and the Philippines.
Corona slowed down
The speed of corona virus in the country is continuously decreasing. The lowest number of cases of infection have been reported after 287 days. In the last 24 hours, 8,865 cases have been registered and 197 patients have died during this period.
