London: Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – marking the start of the UK’s mass vaccination programme against the deadly disease. Keenan, from Enniskillen, said she felt “so privileged” to receive the jab at University Hospital, Coventry. Keenan became […]
London: In a significant development, the first full results from interim analysis has confirmed that the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine has an acceptable safety profile and is efficacious against symptomatic the Coronavirus caused disease, with only three out of 23,745 participants experiencing serious adverse events. Interim results of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials found that the […]
Hyderabad: Envoys of 64 countries on Wednesday visited the facilities of Bharat Biotech and Biological E, which are developing vaccines for coronavirus. After landing in Hyderabad by a special Air India flight, the Ambassadors and High Commissioners from the countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania reached Genome Valley on the […]
Geneva: A causal link between the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and the rare occurrence of blood clots with low platelets is “considered plausible but not confirmed,” the World Health Organization (WHO)…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS here, and asked those eligible for the shot to take it soon to defeat…
Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday publicly received the COVID-19 vaccine and said he was doing this to demonstrate that people should be ready to take the vaccine when it is available. Biden received the first course of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital. “I am doing this to demonstrate that people should be […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will also conduct dry run of the Covid-19 vaccine in the lines of four States- Punjab, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, which kicked off the exercise on Monday wherein every step other than the actual administering of the vaccine will be carried out. Director of DMET CBK Mohanty informed regarding the […]
New Delhi: Pune-based Serum Institute of India on Monday expressed hope at the possibility of Covid-19 vaccine – Covishield receiving the regulatory approval in “few days”, while emphasising that the company has a massive stockpile 40-50 million doses. The drug maker has partnered with global pharma giant AstraZeneca and the Oxford University for making the […]
Washington: US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine against the novel coronavirus. According to the Biden-Harris transition team, Harris was vaccinated on Tuesday by Patricia Cummings, a clinical nurse manager at the United Medical Center. In a tweet late Tuesday, Harris said: “Today I got the Covid-19 vaccine. […]
Beijing: China granted conditional marketing authorisation for a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm). The vaccine will be provided free to the national inoculation programme, the South China Morning Post reported, citing Chinese officials. China earlier granted emergency use authorisation of the vaccine for high risk groups. “Yesterday, to be […]
New Delhi: A dry run for COVID-19 vaccination will be conducted by all state and union territory administrations on January 2 to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges, the Centre said on Thursday. The activity is proposed to be conducted in all state capitals in at least 3 session […]
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted emergency use validation for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, opening the door for countries to expedite their own regulatory approval processes to import and administer the vaccine. While many countries rely on their own regulatory systems for vaccine approvals, some countries with weak system depend on WHO’s nod […]
New Delhi: As India braces up to launch world’s largest immunisation drive, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday appealed people not to pay heed to the rumours against the much-awaited Covid-19 vaccine. “I want to appeal to people to not believe in any rumors. Our prime criteria in the vaccine trial is the safety […]
New Delhi: Following accounts of potential allergies to the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, scientists have outlined steps on safely receiving the second dose of the therapeutic in individuals who develop a reaction to their first dose. The research, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, summarised what is […]
New Delhi: The All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) said it is shocked to learn of the SEC’s recommendation to grant REU approval to Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN in “clinical trial mode” and “specially in the context of infection by mutant strains”. “In light of the intense concerns arising from the absence of efficacy data and […]
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