Moderna’s Vaccine: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission to Mumbai-based pharma major Cipla to import Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it the fourth vaccine in the country to be given the emergency use authorisation (EUA). India has made available three COVID vaccines — Covaxin, Covishield and Sputnik. The vaccine, mRNA-1273, manufactured by […]
Tag: 30th Jun 2021
Covishield not in EU Vaccine Passport Programme
Vaccine Passport Programme: Covishield, manufactured by Serum Institute of India, is not among the vaccines which have been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its “vaccine passport” programme that allows free movement of people in and out of Europe. The EMA list only includes four vaccines now Vaxzevria (Oxford-AstraZeneca), Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech), Spikevax (Moderna) […]
