A two-year-and-eight-month-old girl was given the COVID-19 vaccine, perhaps making her one of Uttar Pradesh’s youngest vaccination recipients.
The youngster was given the first dose of the indigenous COVID vaccine during the ongoing Covaxin study on young children. The girl who received the vaccination is the daughter of a Kanpur Dehat private doctor.
The COVID-19 vaccine was administered to five children, three girls, and two boys, between the ages of two and six. The vaccination trials on children have begun at Kanpur’s Prakhar Hospital. A safety profile of the children who have been vaccinated will be prepared.
Bharat Biotech was granted approval by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) in May to begin phase 2-3 trials of Covaxin on children as young as two years old. Covaxin is also being tested on children at other facilities, including AIIMS Delhi and Patna.
On Tuesday (June 22), the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) accepted and approved the phase 3 trial data of Covaxin which showed 77.8 per cent efficacy. This data will now be sent to the DCGI for review.
Meanwhile, in an interview, Delhi AIIMS chief Dr. Randeep Guleria said, “Covaxin’s data for children after completion of the Phase 2/3 trials will be available by September and the approval is expected the same month.”
