{"id":1803,"date":"2021-10-19T06:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T06:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2021-10-23T06:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T06:46:14","slug":"cannot-cut-corners-in-approving-covaxin-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/cannot-cut-corners-in-approving-covaxin-who\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cannot cut corners\u2019 in approving Covaxin: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"398\" src=\"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/int4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/int4.jpg 377w, https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/int4-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/int4-300x317.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organisation said on Monday that it is expecting one additional piece of information from Bharat Biotech regarding its COVID-19 vaccine \u2018COVAXIN\u2019 and emphasised that it has to thoroughly evaluate to ensure vaccines are safe and \u201ccannot cut corners\u201d before recommending a vaccine for emergency use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, which has developed Covaxin, had submitted EOI (Expression of Interest) to the World Health Organisation on April 19 for its vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are aware that many people are waiting for WHO\u2019s recommendation for Covaxin to be included in the #COVID-19 Emergency Use Listing, but we cannot cut corners &#8211; before recommending a product for emergency use, we must evaluate it thoroughly to make sure it is safe and effective,\u201d the global health organisation said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBharat Biotech &#8211; the manufacturer of Covaxin &#8211; has been submitting data to WHO on a rolling basis and WHO experts have reviewed these data. WHO is expecting one additional piece of information from the company today,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO\u2019s tweet came a day after its chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said that the agency\u2019s technical advisory group will meet on October 26 to consider the emergency use listing of India\u2019s Covaxin which is being used in the country\u2019s nationwide anti-COVID-19 vaccination programme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation said on Monday that it is expecting one additional piece of information from Bharat Biotech regarding its COVID-19 vaccine \u2018COVAXIN\u2019 and emphasised that it has to thoroughly evaluate to ensure vaccines are safe and \u201ccannot cut corners\u201d before recommending a vaccine for emergency use. Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, which has developed Covaxin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}