Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal (Jan 2022)

A review on COVID-19 vaccinations

  • Ketan Garg,
  • Dipesh Talwar,
  • Samiksha Naresh Mahajan,
  • Sana Karim,
  • Kesar Prajapati,
  • Savan Patel,
  • Bhawna Garg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/bbrj.bbrj_280_21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 50 – 53

Abstract

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The year 2019 witnessed a pandemic named COVID-19 caused by infection severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has affected millions since then. It led to a global cry for vaccine development. Scientists arrayed the SARS-CoV-2 genome within a month of the outbreak. They used the parallels between SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 to speed up the vaccine preparation. As of now, different types of COVID-19 vaccines are prevailing.

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