Covaxin efficacy in question after 50 Bharat Biotech workers test COVID positive
Hyderabad: A recent tweet by the Joint Managing Director (MD) of Bharat Biotech, Suchitra Ella, revealing that 50 employees of the company had tested positive for Covid-19 is under discussion, as Netizens criticised the effectiveness of its anti-COVID vaccine, COVAXIN, while others wondered why the employees had not been vaccinated.
This came after a tweet by the Joint MD on the issue of Covaxin supply mentioning that Covaxin was dispatched on May 10th and that 18 states were covered in smaller shipments, adding that the shipment was done in 18 places including Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Telangana, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and West Bengal.
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