Claim: Dr. NK Arora, the head of Government's vaccine advisory panel said that the initial batches of Covaxin administered to people were not of right quality.
Fact-check: Govt's vaccine advisory panel head did not say that initial batches of Covaxin administered to people 'were not of the right quality' - FACTLY
Verdict: government's vaccine advisory panel head, dr. nk arora did not say that the initial batches of covaxin administered to people were not of right quality. dr. nk arora, the chief of national immunization technical advisory group, said that the new bangalore plant of bharat biotech had initial hiccups in supplying covaxin because the first couple of batches 'were not of the right quality'. these were test batches that got rejected and were not administered as part of the vaccination campaign. further batches which received approval have moved forward. sreenivasan jain, the journalist who interviewed dr. arora also later clarified via twitter that these batches of covaxin did not make their way into the vaccination programme. hence, the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Abhishek Mandadi
Date published: 2021-08-04T11:22:30