First Intra-Nasal Corona Vaccine to be Launched on Republic Day
NEW DELHI, Jan 21: Home-grown vaccine maker Bharat Biotech will launch the country’s first intra-nasal COVID-19 vaccine iNCOVACC on January 26, the company’s chairman and managing director Krishna Ella said on Saturday.
Interacting with students at the India International Science Festival in Bhopal, Ella also said the home-grown vaccine for the lumpy skin disease in cattle, Lumpi-ProVacInd, is likely to be launched next month.
“Our nasal vaccine will be officially launched on January 26, on Republic Day,” Ella said, participating in the ‘Face-to-Face with New Frontiers in Science’ segment of the IISF, organised at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT).
In December, Bharat Biotech had announced that it would sell the intranasal vaccine for ₹ 325 per shot for procurement by the government and ₹ 800 per shot for private vaccination centres.
(Manas Dasgupta)
