Nasal COVID 19 vaccine will be easy to give to children AIIMS director

Delhi | Friday | 22nd January, 2021

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New Delhi January 20A nasal COVID-19 vaccine will be easy to give to school-going children who bear a "very mild" load of the disease but they are infectious AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria said on Wednesday. "It (coronavirus infection) is very mild in children but they are infectious. "Vaccines for children may come later...

Bharat Biotech is trying to get approved a nasal vaccine. So if that (nasal vaccine) is approved it will be even easier to give the vaccine (for COVID-19)" Guleria said in reply to a question. "We need to enhance our research capacity and we should not forget what we learnt during the coronavirus outbreak" Guleria said..