Incovacc

  • Bharat Biotech’s intranasal vaccine, BBV154 or Incovacc is the world’s first intranasal vaccine to be approved as a booster dose for COVID-19.
  • The nasal vaccine is a recombinant replication-deficient adenovirus vectored vaccine with a pre-fusion stabilized spike protein.
  • As the vaccine is given nasally, it triggers an immune response in the mucosal membrane.
  • BBV154 may produce local antibodies in the upper respiratory tract which may provide the potential to reduce infection and transmission.
  • This is the second heterologous booster to be included in the vaccination programme after ....
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