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Covishield is the brand name used for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India s Serum Institute, administered to millions of people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. It s not on the list of approved vaccines for the European Union although the AstraZeneca version made in the United Kingdom and at European sites is.
I m fully vaccinated. I want to travel to Europe. And fully vaccinated visitors are welcome.
But I can t get in.
That s because the vaccine I received is not on Europe s list of four approved vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Oxford-AstraZeneca, but only the version manufactured in the United Kingdom or Europe and known as Vaxzevria. The version that s much more widely used around the world, which is made by the Serum Institute of India and branded as Covishield, is not on the list of vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency. And that s the vaccine I got along with hundr
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