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CoWIN is the technological the potential to contributing to and Communicable Diseases, He informed that ICMR
backbone driving vaccination in vaccine hesitancy. ICMR con- ICMR, “it was like a natural decided to conduct the study so
India and encompasses all con- ducted the current investigation experiment when second time that people would not get anx-
stituents of the vaccination pro- against that backdrop. these individuals inoculated iety or vaccine hesitancy. “We
cess. There has been confusion As per Dr Samiran Pan- with different doses inadver- went to the place and collected
over UK’s vaccine recognition da, Head of Epidemiology tently.” samples of individuals,” said Dr
process for Indian travellers. Panda.
Even though these rules state A total of 18 participants
that AstraZeneca Covishield is were in the heterologous group.
among vaccines that qualify as However, two participants were
approved, India is not yet on the unwilling and were excluded.
list of 17 countries mentioned. Among them, 11 were male, and
Meanwhile, the Indian seven were female with a medi-
Council of Medical Research an age of 62 years. “A comorbid
(ICMR) has revealed in its condition (hypertension) was
study that the combination of reported in one (5.5 per cent)
Covaxin and Covishield vac- individual. In both the homolo-
cines, the two main vaccines gous groups, 40 individuals were
of the COVID-19 vaccination included,” the study said.
programme, conducted on 18 The findings of the study
people, has elicited better safe- suggest that immunization with
ty and immunogenicity results. a combination of an adenovi-
The nationwide vaccination rus vector platform-based vac-
program had entered into 4th cine followed by an inactivated
month when the event of mixed whole virus vaccine was not only
dosing raised considerable anx- Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla safe but also elicited better im-
iety in the public domain with munogenicity.

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