Covaxin offers protection against double mutant variant found in India: study
The Hindu
It will provide the much-needed boost for COVID-19 vaccination programme in India, say researchers
A study has found that people who have been vaccinated with Covaxin have protection against the double mutant (B.1.617) variant first found in India. A preprint of the study carried out by ICMR and Bharat Biotech researchers has been posted in biorXiv. Preprints are yet to be peer-reviewed and published in medical journals. So far, 21 countries have detected the B.1.617 variant. Of those, the majority of cases has been reported from India. The researchers used the sera collected from 28 people who had participated in the Covaxin phase-2 trial. They also collected sera samples from 17 people who were infected with older strains of SARS-CoV-2 virus and had recovered.
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