{"id":128124,"date":"2021-09-26T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/zydus-cadila-what-we-know-about-indias-new-covid-vaccines"},"modified":"2021-09-26T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:22:19","slug":"zydus-cadila-what-we-know-about-indias-new-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/zydus-cadila-what-we-know-about-indias-new-covid-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"Zydus Cadila: What we know about India\u2019s new Covid vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zydus-cadila-what-we-know-about-indias-new-covid-vaccines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ZyCoV-D vaccine is also the world\u2019s first DNA vaccine against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Like other vaccines, a DNA vaccine, once administered, teaches the body\u2019s immune system to fight the real virus.<\/p>\n<p>ZyCoV-D uses plasmids \u2014 or small rings of DNA that contain genetic information \u2014 to deliver the jab between two layers of the skin.<\/p>\n<p>ZyCov-D is also India\u2019s first needle-free Covid-19 jab.<\/p>\n<p>It is administered with a disposable needle-free injector, which uses a narrow stream of the fluid to penetrate the skin and deliver the jab to the proper tissue.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>India has given a boost to its vaccination programme by approving its first vaccine for those under 18.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/zydus-cadila-what-we-know-about-indias-new-covid-vaccines\">Continue reading \u201cZydus Cadila: What we know about India\u2019s new Covid vaccines\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ZyCoV-D vaccine is also the world\u2019s first DNA vaccine against Covid-19. Like other vaccines, a DNA vaccine, once administered, teaches the body\u2019s immune system to fight the real virus. ZyCoV-D uses plasmids \u2014 or small rings of DNA that contain genetic information \u2014 to deliver the jab between two layers of the skin. ZyCov-D [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}