The Indian Council of Medical Research on Saturday said that a study on mixing and matching of Covid-19 vaccines Covaxin and Covishield has shown a better result.
The study showed that immunisation with the combination of an adenovirus vector platform-based vaccine followed by inactivated whole virus vaccine was not only safe but also elicited better immune response.
While Covishield is a chimpanzee adenovirus vector-based vaccine, Covaxin is an inactivated whole virus vaccine.
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The Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation had recently recommended conducting trials on mixing the two vaccines