WHO grants Emergency Use Listing to Biological E Corbevax vaccine
Hyderabad: Biological E. Limited, a Hyderabad-based Vaccines and Pharmaceutical company, has announced that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted an Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to their CORBEVAX vaccine, which is India's first indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine that is based on protein sub-unit platform.
The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) already approved CORBEVAX for restricted use in emergency among adults, adolescents and young children in a sequential manner from December’21 to April’22; as well as India’s first heterologous COVID-19 booster shot for adults age 18 and above in June’22. BE supplied 100 Million Doses of CORBEVAX to the Government of India which were then utilized in pan-India immunization campaigns; mainly in 12-14 yr old children.
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