WHO Approves ‘Covavax’ Vaccine Made in India

COVID-19 disease has been in our lives for about 2 years. This frightening epidemic still kills thousands of people every day. Moreover, while the effects of the epidemic have only begun to decrease, the newly emerged Omicron variant also raises concerns about the epidemic, causing people to be even more afraid. That’s why World Health Organization (WHO) Experts in places like this one state that getting vaccinated is still the best way to protect against the virus.

Now, the World Health Organization has announced that it has approved another COVID-19 vaccine with a new statement. According to the statements, produced in India against the new type of coronavirus and Covavax named vaccineemergency use approval‘ has been given. This approval has given Covavax the approval of the WHO. ninth vaccine made.

Covavax becomes ninth vaccine approved

In the statements made by the World Health Organization today, the US pharmaceutical company ‘Novavaxunder license from Indian Serum Institute Covovax, which is produced by Covovax, announced that the vaccine named ‘NVX-CoV2373’ has been approved for emergency use. In addition, there are statements made that more people should be vaccinated and that low-income countries should be vaccinated. increasing efforts needed was also emphasized.

WHO Deputy Director-General Dr. Mariangela Simao, in her statements regarding this approval decision, “Although new variants such as Omicron continue to emerge, vaccines still protect against severe illness and death from COVID-19. most effective weapon It would not be wrong to say that it is. Our primary goal will be to send this approved vaccine to low-income countries with a vaccination rate of around 10%. Vaccination of people in these countries is of great importance for the course of the epidemic.

In addition, with this decision, the number of vaccines approved by WHO has increased to 9. The Geneva-based organization first approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in December 2020. Apart from this, AstraZeneca has also approved vaccines such as Moderna, Jannsen, Sinopharm and Sinovac. In addition, at the beginning of last November, WHO covaxin He also announced that he had given emergency use approval to an Indian vaccine called.