{"id":248950,"date":"2023-06-21T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=248950"},"modified":"2023-06-21T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:12:57","slug":"gemcovac-om-indias-first-mrna-vaccine-against-omicron-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gemcovac-om-indias-first-mrna-vaccine-against-omicron-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"GEMCOVAC-OM: India\u2019s first mRNA vaccine against Omicron approved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia\u2019s first mRNA vaccine against Omicron approved\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 21st June 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s first indigenous mRNA vaccine for the Omicron variant, <\/span><b>GEMCOVAC-OM<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been approved under emergency use guidelines by the Drug Controller General of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is GEMCOVAC-OM?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GEMCOVAC-OM is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s first indigenous mRNA vaccine for the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Eligibility: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b\u200b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who are 18 years of age and older can take the vaccine as a booster dose. This can be administered safely to individuals who have received two doses of either Covaxin or Covishield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a thermo-stable vaccine, which does not require ultra-cold chain infrastructure used for other approved mRNA-based vaccines, making it easy for deployment pan India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It is delivered intra-dermally using a needle-free injection device system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 When administered intradermally in participants as a booster, it generated significantly higher immune responses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>mRNA vaccine?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-research-how-self-replicating-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-work-and-what-the-trial-results-show\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia\u2019s first mRNA vaccine against Omicron approved\u201d published in The Hindu on 21st June 2023 What is the News? India\u2019s first indigenous mRNA vaccine for the Omicron variant, GEMCOVAC-OM has been approved under emergency use guidelines by the Drug Controller General of India. What is GEMCOVAC-OM? GEMCOVAC-OM&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gemcovac-om-indias-first-mrna-vaccine-against-omicron-approved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GEMCOVAC-OM: India\u2019s first mRNA vaccine against Omicron approved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-248950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700132571},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}