India has approved Covid vaccines for children aged between 5 and 12 years of age following calls from experts, schools and parents to speed up the health drive that has seen millions of teens inoculated since January.
The national drug regulator in India has approved US-origin Corvevax and Covaxin – indigenously developed shots – for the renewed inoculation program and says the government will soon give the final clearance to jab the very youngest.
