New Delhi: Veterans and dependents of the armed forces will start receiving vaccines against Covid-19 from next week, the Indian Army said on Saturday. “Approval of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for vaccination of veterans and dependents of armed forces personnel in service hospitals has been received,” the army said in a statement. […]
Hyderabad: Covaxin, India’s first indigenous vaccine for Covid-19, is “safe, immunogenic with no serious side effects”, says leading medical journal The Lancet in its interim efficacy analysis. The Lancet – Infectious Diseases Journal, published phase 2 results of the vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. However, the report made it clear that efficacy cannot be […]
Paris: The global gross domestic product (GDP) will grow at 5.6 per cent this year if Covid-19 vaccination rollouts are fast and effective enough across the world, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said. World output is expected to reach pre-pandemic levels by mid-2021 and the global economy is expected to grow […]
Washington: Patients without COVID-19 symptoms are far less likely to test positive, and unknowingly spread COVID-19 ten days after receiving a second dose of a messenger RNA vaccine, compared to those who have not been vaccinated, a study says. Researchers from Mayo Clinic in the US noted that several vaccines are now clinically available under […]
Geneva: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the UN health agency “systematically reviews safety signals, and is carefully assessing the current reports on the AstraZeneca vaccine”. The Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has been suspended in a number of countries across Europe and Asia, […]
New Delhi: Amid concerns over dangerous side-effects of the Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine, India is evaluating all serious adverse events post-vaccination to determine the causality aspects of Covishield and Covaxin, an expert associated with the process said Saturday. His comments came in the backdrop of some European countries suspending the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Covishield over fears […]
London: In the wake of several European countries suspending the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the company has said that there has been no evidence of increased blood clot risk from its jab. The suspensions have come amid several reports of blood clots following vaccinations with the Covid jab developed by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical […]
New Delhi: The Centre has placed a new purchase order with the Serum Institute of India (SII) for the supply of 10 crore doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, each costing Rs 157.50, including GST, according to official sources. The HLL Lifecare Limited, a public sector undertaking, has issued the supply order on behalf […]
New York: Waiting to get vaccinated for Covid-19 after your delivery? According to a new study, mothers who get vaccinated against coronavirus earlier in their third trimester are more likely…
New Delhi: More than 36.7 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day coverage till now, the Union Health ministry said on Friday. Of the 36,71,242 vaccine doses, 33,65,597 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 51,215 sessions for the first dose and 3,05,645 beneficiaries received the second dose of vaccine, the […]
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Friday said he has received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Taking to official blog, the 78-year-old actor revealed that every member of his family, except son Abhishek Bachchan, have received the first dose of coronavirus vaccine. “Vaccination done… All well… Did COVID test for family and staff yesterday… […]
New Delhi: India crossed another significant milestone in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic with vaccination of over five crore beneficiaries as on Tuesday. According to the data by the Health Ministry, a total of 5,00,75,162 vaccine doses have been given, as per the provisional report till 7 p.m. These include 79,03,068 healthcare workers who […]
New Delhi: New data on Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing and supply capacity indicate up to 12 billion doses from 13 different sources could be available by the end of the year, enough to vaccinate 70 per cent of the world if distributed equitably. However, an assessment from the Duke Global Health Innovation Center Launch and Scale […]
United Nations: India has supplied more COVID-19 vaccines globally than vaccinated its own people, the country has told the UN General Assembly and cautioned that vaccine inequity will defeat the collective global resolve to contain the coronavirus as the disparity in the accessibility of vaccines will affect the poorest nations the most. India was one […]
New Delhi: Noting that India is currently running the world’s largest vaccination programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed all countrymen to take Covid-19 vaccine and reiterated his ‘dawaayi bhi kadayee bhi’ mantra to avoid spread of the pandemic. “It’s an appeal to all to take the vaccine…Do remember the mantra to fight corona- […]
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