All these are sub-variants of the parent variant, the Omicron which rocked the nation in 2022. And by March of that year, India became endemic, which means the numbers were low and steady.
“The doses are available to the senior citizens in CVCs and they can get a jab if they feel the need to take the intranasal precautionary dose. As the number of cases has decreased in Mumbai and WHO too has declared that Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency. We don’t see any need to take up new awareness initiatives for precautionary doses,” said Dr Mangala Gomare, executive officer of the public health department, BMC
Bharat Biotech has received new orders for iNCOVACC from states like Maharashtra and private hospitals. The company previously suffered financial losses after having to destroy tens of millions of Covaxin vaccine doses due to insufficient demand.
After days of scarcity of Covid-19 vaccines, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has stalked the vials, supplied by the state government through direct procurement from the manufacturer Bharat Biotech.