In an application to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), Prakash Kumar Singh, the director, government and regulatory affairs, at SII cited that the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has already approved the booster dose of AstraZeneca ChAdOxi nCOV-19 vaccine, they said.
Singh is learnt to have said in the application that as the world continues to face the pandemic, many countries have started administering booster dose of Covid-19 vaccines.
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