Right ahead of the Covid-19 vaccination programme for 12-14 year old children, Pune based Serum Institute of India (SII) has now urged the Centre to include Covovax, the Novavax vaccine, in the children vaccination drive.
Sources close to the development said that SII has urged the government to include Covovax in the national Covid19 immunisation drive for 12 years and above.
“SII has written to the Union Health Ministry urging them to use the vaccine for adolescents too in the government programme. The company has also indicated that they already have queries from several institutions, schools, hospitals, public sector undertakings

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