Russia has taken another step forward to overcome the corona virus epidemic. Russia’s health ministry on Friday approved the nasal vaccine Sputnik V. With this, it is the world’s first nasal vaccine that has been approved for use by any country.
After the arrival of the corona virus vaccine, now many countries of the world including America are engaged in preparing nasal vaccine. American company Altimmune is making a nasal corona vaccine named Adcovid. At present, their vaccine is still in trial. Apart from this, nasal vaccine is also being prepared in Canada and Finland. According to media reports, Rokotay Lab of Finland is preparing this vaccine.
At the same time, the Expert Committee (SEC) of DCGI in India has approved Bharat Biotech for the third phase trial of the nasal vaccine. This approval can be considered important in the war against Corona. In this third phase, the biotech will also research whether it can be used as a booster dose of corona?
What is Nasal Vaccine and how does it work?
The goal of the nasal spray is to deliver the vaccine dose directly through the respiratory tract so that this vaccine directly targets the place from where the COVID-19 infection started infecting the body. In most cases of corona, it has been seen that the virus enters the body through the mucosa and infects the cells and molecules present in the mucosal membrane. In such a situation, if we give the vaccine through the nose, then it can be very effective. That is why the option of giving this vaccine through the nose is being thought of all over the world and research is going on on it.