Government has issued guidelines for the state government to identify fake Covid vaccines available in the markets. At the moment, there are three vaccines against coronavirus in the Indian market--Serum Institute of India's Covishield, Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, and Russian vaccine Sputnik V. The union health ministry has listed the following criteria to check if the Covid vaccine is original or fake: COVISHIELD COVAXIN More than 68 crore Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in India so far.
Of which, 26.99 crore first doses have been administered to individuals in the 18-44 age group, and 3.35 crore second doses in the same age group since the start of phase-3 of the vaccination drive on May 1.