European Union to include those vaccinated with Covishield and Covaxin as in the latter's exemption list for its vaccine passport.
Recently, nine European countries, including Austria, Germany, Iceland, Greece, Slovenia, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland and Estonia, said that they will allow Indians inoculated with Covishield to visit. "Our expectation is that Indians vaccinated through our domestic vaccination program would be treated at par with those vaccinated in the EU and vaccination certificate would be recognized by EU on a reciprocal basis," said MEA spokersperson Bachi.
On vaccine production and availability, the current priority is to purpose domestic production as part of the domestic vaccination program, said Bachi.