Abstract
COVID-19 is one of the corona viruses in which COVID-19 positive patients developed symptoms like fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of appetite, sputum production, joint pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Exacerbation of COVID-19 has developed an urge to introduce vaccine for COVID-19 and UK became rst country to approve COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pzer/BioNtech globally. India launched its Phase I vaccination programme against COVID-19 on 16th January, 2021 with two vaccines (Covishield and Covaxin). Manipur started vaccination simultaneously with Covishield among health care workers and frontline workers. A study was conducted about the acceptance of COVID 19 vaccine among 200 post graduates medical students irrespective of the age and sex by using self administered questionnaries. It was found that only about 87(43.5%) Postgraduate students got vaccinated.The common side effects include pain, fever, myalgia, increase in sleep and decrease in sleep. It can be concluded that no major side effects were associated with this vaccine.
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