Eight doctors of the Mumbai region took shots of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin on Wednesday at JJ Hospital instead of Serum Institute’s Covishield.

The authorities who have struggled to persuade potential recipients to take Covaxin welcomed this development and have even planned to organise voluntary walk-ins for Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin as long as the name of the recipient is registered on the CoWin app, reports Times of India.