Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launches Bharat Biotech’s nasal Covid vaccine iNCOVACC

New Delhi, 26/1: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh launched Bharat Biotech’s nasal Covid vaccine, iNCOVACC, on the occasion of Republic Day on Thursday.

The world’s first made-in-India intranasal vaccine was launched at Mandaviya’s residence here. The nasal vaccine — BBV154 — had received the Drugs Controller General of India’s (DCGI) approval in November for restricted emergency use among adults as a heterologous booster dose.

 

According to a statement issued by Bharat Biotech earlier, ‘iNCOVACC’ is priced at Rs 800 for private markets and at Rs 325 for supplies to the government of India and state governments