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Karnataka places orders for Covishield and Corbevax booster shots

January 05, 2023 11:10 am

The state government expects to get 25 lakh Covishield and 5 lakh Corbevax doses from the Central Government this week. It denied any detection of the BF.7 variant of Covid-19 in Karnataka.

Maharashtra: State’s net waste of Corbevax doses 14.31%, above 10% permissible limit

October 20, 2022 5:16 pm

Corbevax was introduced on March 16. A total of 17 districts in the state have recorded net vaccine wastage above 15 per cent.

Over 50,000 Corbevax doses wasted in 5 months due to low turnout of children

August 14, 2022 8:59 pm

In Mumbai since the beginning of the mass immunization programme in March 2021, a total of 48,040 doses have been wasted, which comes down to a comparitively smaller wastage of 2,825 doses per month.

India introduces Covid-19 mix and match booster dose: does it offer more protection against new Omicron sub-variants?

August 17, 2022 9:39 pm

What is true of existing vaccines is true of Corbevax. It offers protection against the severity of infection but remember it was developed on the basis of the ancestral strain, clarifies virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang, Professor, The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore

Mix and match: Centre okays Corbevax as booster for those who got Covishield or Covaxin

August 11, 2022 12:55 am

This means that those who have received Covishield or Covaxin as their first or second dose can take Corbevax as the third booster shot, officials said. According to the protocol until now, the third dose had to be the same vaccine that was used for the first and second doses.

Government nod for Corbevax as booster for adults vaccinated with Covishield, Covaxin soon

August 09, 2022 8:50 pm

The approval will be based on the recommendations made by the COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation last week.