Opinion | Let us keep politics away from Covid vaccine issue

Even before the first Covid vaccine is yet to be given in India, political parties have already started politicizing the issue by questioning emergency approval given to the indigenous Covaxin vaccine developed by a Hyderabad company Bharat Biotech. On Sunday, the Drugs Controller General of India formally announced the emergency approval for ‘restricted use’ of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin and the Covishield vaccine, developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and Serum Institute of India.