Covid-19: Are people hesitant to take the vaccine? Adar Poonawalla shares his views | Exclusive

Are people hesitant to take the Covid Vaccine? Is Covishield safe?

Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla answers all these questions exclusively on India Today. He said that Covishield is absolutely safe and gives 94% efficacy.

"Data on clotting fears will be out next week, and we need to see if the clots are related to the vaccine," Adar Poonawala said.

Earlier, Adar Poonawalla had said that the effectiveness of the Covishield vaccine rises to as much as 90 per cent if the two shots are separated by about 2.5-3 months. "One arm of trials, in which doses were given one month apart, was 60-70 per cent effective. And there was another group of few thousand patients where they gave a gap of 2-3 months between the two doses. That is where they found the efficacy to be 90 per cent," Adar Poonawalla told India Today TV.