Tag: Covid 19 Vaccine

Mumbai: Optimism over the introduction of an Civod-19 vaccine in India along with continued foreign fund inflows boosted the Indian stock markets on Tuesday. In terms of global cues, positive development over US President-elect Joe Biden’s team getting a formal go-ahead to begin the transition process boosted investor sentiments. Back home, broad based buying took […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday said the state cannot lower its guard against COVID-19 even after availability of vaccine to fight the viral infection. Patnaik said this while attending a meeting of chief ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the PM took stock of vaccination preparedness across the country over a […]

New Delhi: Apollo Hospitals are gearing up to give one million vaccines a day once it is available across India through its hospitals, clinics, health centres, pharmacies and Apollo 24/7. “Covid-19 vaccine should be ready within the next 60-120 days”, Apollo 24/7 is doing a survey asking customers whether they will take the vaccine and […]

New York: US President-elect Joe Biden renewed his call to Americans to “hang on!”, mask up and limit social gatherings until the coronavirus vaccine is available at population scale. “We have to try to slow the growth of the virus. We owe that to the doctors, the nurses, and the other front-line health care workers […]

New Delhi: Dr. Reddys Laboratories Ltd. and Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced on Tuesday that they have commenced adaptive Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials for Sputnik V vaccine in India for Covid-19 after receiving the necessary clearance from the Central Drugs Laboratory, Kasauli. This will be a multicentre and randomised controlled study, which […]

London: Paving the way for mass vaccinations against the deadly novel coronavirus, UK on Wednesday became the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19. The British regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), says the jab, which claims to offer up to 95 per cent protection against COVID-19 illness, is safe […]

New Delhi: With chances of affordable Covid-19 vaccine likely to be available by February 2021, 59 per cent Indians divulged that they will not rush to take it, a survey revealed on Wednesday. The last few weeks have given hope to the world with three vaccine makers — Pfizer, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca releasing their efficacy […]

Bhubaneswar: With COVID-19 vaccine likely to be rolled out in next few weeks, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) from Odisha on Thursday placed two demands before the Centre during the all-party meeting which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While attending the meet, BJD MP Chandrasekhar Sahu stressed to give adequate focus to […]

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday said that the residents on United Stated will not be forced to take Covid-19 vaccination and he is willing to get vaccinated publicly to assuage any concerns about its efficacy and safety. I don’t think they should be mandatory. I wouldn’t demand it to be mandatory, but I […]

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda on Friday said that the Covid-19 vaccine should be given free to the economically vulnerable sections and at affordable rates to the majority of the people. “The Covid vaccine should be given for free to the poor, who are economically weak and its […]

Singapore: Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, is among the six people named “Asians of the Year” by  The Straits Times, a leading daily newspaper of Singapore, for their work in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has collaborated with the University […]

New Delhi: Hours after Haryana Home and Health Minister Anil Vij, who was administered a dose of Covaxin last month, confirmed that he has been tested positive for coronavirus infection, the Union Health Ministry on Saturday clarified that Vij took only the first dose of the two-dose vaccine. “The antibodies against the infection build up […]

New Delhi: With India getting ready for Covid-19 vaccine and focusing on its early availability, experts on Saturday stressed that the country must remain well-equipped with secured stock of syringes in advance. The Union government should immediately scale up syringe supplies to deal with the vast number of inoculations required to control the pandemic, said […]

Bhubaneswar: In order to streamline the Covid-19 vaccination drive, the Odisha government on Saturday reconstituted the Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee at the State as well as district level. The 21-member State-level AEFI committee will be headed by the director of family welfare while the chief district medical and public health officer will head […]

New Delhi: Pfizer India has become the first pharmaceutical firm to seek from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) an emergency use authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine in the country, after its parent company secured such clearance in the UK and Bahrain. The firm, in its application submitted to the drug regulator, has sought permission […]