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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Common symptoms for Covaxin and Covishield

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Covid-19 vaccine being administered in Delhi.

Bharath Manjesh January 17
Common symptoms for Covaxin and Covishield

As India began an unprecedented vaccination drive to combat Covid-19, a report in The Quint breaks down the Centre's factsheet on symptoms associated with Covaxin and Covishield and more.

For Covishield pain or tenderness at the injection site, fatigue, muscle pain, discomfort, an elevation of body temperature, chills and nausea are the mild adverse events that one may experience after the vaccine has been administered. The advisory from the Centre says paracetamol can be given in such cases. Bharat Biotech, the firm that has developed Covishield, claimed that no serious adverse event has been reported in