Coronavirus: Bharat Biotech announces price of nasal vaccine - check details | Covid-19 Vaccine

Hyderabad-based biotechnology company Bharat Biotech has announced the price of the world's first nasal Covid-19 vaccine - iNCOVACC. According to the company, the vaccine will cost Rs 800 plus taxes at private hospitals. Also, the Centre and state governments can buy Bharat Biotech's nasal vaccine for Rs 325. 

iNCOVACC is now available on CoWIN portal. According to the vaccine maker, the jab will be rolled out in the fourth week of January, 2023.

INCOVACC is the world's first intranasal vaccine for COVID to receive approval for the primary two-dose schedule, and as a heterologous booster dose.

Earlier this month, Bharat Biotech received approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) for the use of heterologous booster doses of iNCOVACC.

Krishna Ella, Executive Chairman of BBIL, said: "We have developed Covaxin and iNCOVACC, two COVID vaccines from two different platforms, with two different delivery systems. The vectored intranasal delivery platform gives us the capability for rapid product development, scale-up, easy and painless immunisation during public health emergencies and pandemics."

Phase-III trials of iNCOVACC (as a two-dose regimen) were conducted for safety, immunogenicity in approximately 3100 subjects, in 14 trial sites across India while Heterologous booster dose studies were conducted for safety and immunogenicity in 875 subjects, the release further said.

INCOVACC was developed in partnership with Washington University, St Louis, which had designed and developed the recombinant adenoviral vectored construct and evaluated in pre-clinical studies for efficacy, it added.

With PTI Inputs