Kanpur: This is the only place in the state where intranasal vaccine trials against Covidvirus are being done, as news reports said.
As many as 30 adult volunteers including doctors, their family members and others have administered the first dose of the intranasal vaccine. The second dose will be given after 28 days to the volunteers.
Another 20 people will be administered this vaccine over the next few days.
The principal investigator for the intra-nasal Covid vaccine, Dr J.S. Kushwaha said that the doses of the vaccine administered to healthy volunteers in this phase of the trial has reportedly no critical adverse happenings so far.
According to Dr Kushwaha, "Two drops of the intranasal vaccine were put into each nostril of a volunteer that straight goes into the respiratory tract.
After a gap of five minutes, two more drops were administered in the same manner. This way a total of eight vaccine drops were administered to each person. The volunteer was then observed for any reaction for over an hour before being allowed to go home."
He also said that the second time, saliva and blood samples will be collected for studying immunogenicity.
The Covaxin is also administered twice in the same period. The vaccine is designed to neutralise the virus in the nostril, he added.
