A March 6 order by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare directed "rationalisation" of the vaccine to meet the "immediate need of travellers" while the new batches had been delayed.
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The Covid patient, a Vadodara-based international traveller from South Africa, is the second BA.5 case in India; the first one was reported in Telangana