India News | Corbevax COVID-19 Vaccine Gets DCGI's Nod for Children Aged 5-12
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) granted emergency use authorisation to Biological E's COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax for those aged 5 to 12 years, informed the pharmaceutical company on Tuesday.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 26 (ANI): The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) granted emergency use authorisation to Biological E's COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax for those aged 5 to 12 years, informed the pharmaceutical company on Tuesday.
Corbevax is currently being administered to children in the age group of 12-14.
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The approval comes after the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) recommendation based on the review of interim safety and immunogenicity data of Corbevax for this age bracket.
This approval comes a month after Corbevax was given the nod for children between 12 and 15 years.
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"BE has developed India's first Indigenous Sub-unit COVID-19 against the novel coronavirus. The company performed a multi-centric, Phase 2/3 clinical trial in 624 children aged between 5 and 18 in two age sub-sets, i.e., >=12 to =5 to
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