Covishield safe, Covid-19 vaccination drive to go on with vigour: Govt

Top WHO official calls blood clots in AstraZeneca jab 'very rare'

Even as concerns rise across the globe on the safety of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, India has found it safe, saying the nationwide inoculation drive can continue. The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine — called Covishield in India — is manufactured in the country by Pune-based Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker by volume. 

A senior member of the national Adverse Events Follo­wing Immunisation (AEFI) committee said that of the 38 autopsy reports they have studied of people who died after vaccination, they found nothing to link the deaths or adverse events to vaccination. “There are 71 deaths. We have received 38