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Covax urges nations to recognise WHO-approved jabs for travel

Nine European nations include Covishield vaccine on their travel list

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Sohini DasShreya Nandi Mumbai/New Delhi
The global initiative for equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, COVAX on Thursday urged all nations to recognise all people who have received Covid-19 jabs approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as ‘fully vaccinated’, while making travel-related decisions across various countries. As international pressure mounts on the EU member countries, as many as nine countries have now included India made AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine Covishield in their list of ‘Green Pass’ vaccines.

India too had opened diplomatic dialogues with the European Union (EU) after the EU Digital Covid Certificate framework recognised the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, but did not mention Covishield as the latter