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India asks EU member states to consider Covishield, Covaxin vaccines under Green Pass scheme

India has requested the EU member nations to accept the vaccination certificate issued through the CoWIN portal.

The European Union”s Digital COVID certificate or “Green Pass” will be rolled out on Thursday with an aim to facilitate free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic is to come into effect on Thursday.

Highly transmissible Covid Delta variant detected in 96 countries, says WHO

Furthermore, a recent study conducted in Scotland and published in the international medical journal Lancet found that the hospitalization rate for patients infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19 was 85 per cent higher than for those infected with the Alpha variant.

“This particular Delta variant is faster, it is fitter, it will pick off the more vulnerable more efficiently than previous variants,” Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program, has commented recently.

Johnson & Johnson exploring ways to accelerate delivery of its COVID vaccine in India

‘We are in ongoing discussions with the Government of India and are exploring how best to accelerate our ability to deliver the Johnson & Johnson single dose COVID-19 vaccine to the people of India,” Johnson & Johnson India spokesperson said in a statement.

As per the recent announcement by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), there is no longer a requirement to conduct bridging clinical studies of COVID-19 vaccines in India, the statement added.

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