Tag: Covid 19 Vaccine

Bhubaneswar: The State has a stock of as many as 17 lakh Covid-19 vaccines doses even as 22.36 lakh people including elderly and persons having co morbidity have been vaccinated so far, Health director Dr Bijay Panigrahy said. Out of the total vaccinated people, 13.47 are eldely people and persons with co-morbidities, he said. “The […]

New Delhi: India’s drug regulator DCGI has extended the shelf life of Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, from six to nine months from its manufacturing date. In a letter to the Serum Institute of India, Drugs Controller General of India V G Somani said the SII is permitted to apply the shelf life of nine […]

United Nations: Asserting that vaccination for him is a moral obligation” towards the whole community, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that he intends to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available and he will do so publicly. Of course, I intend to receive the vaccine when it becomes available for me in whatever the […]

Ottawa: Canada has approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the country, which is currently in the midst of a second wave of the pandemic. The announcement came on Wednesday, two days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau notified that up to 249,000 doses of the two-dose vaccine will be on hand by this year’s […]

New York: After nine hours of non-stop debate, a high powered US vaccine advisory panel endorsed mass use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, putting the country just one step away from a historic vaccination campaign against a virus that has killed more than 292,000 Americans. Shots could come within days. The US Food and Drug […]

New York: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have approved the emergency use of the country’s first Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for people aged 16 years and older. “The FDA’s authorisation for emergency use of the first Covid-19 vaccine is a significant milestone in battling this devastating pandemic that […]

Ottawa: Health Canada has warned people allergic to any of the ingredients in thr Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine not to receive it. In a notification on Saturday, the federal health policy agency said it issued the warning after following up on the two reports of anaphylactoid reactions to the vaccine in the UK, Xinhua news agency […]

New Delhi: Vaccinating 100-200 people in each session per day, monitoring them for 30 minutes after administering the shots for any adverse event and allowing only one beneficiary at a time are among the guidelines issued by the Centre for the COVID-19 inoculation drive. According to the guidelines issued to states recently, the COVID Vaccine […]

Cuttack: The Odisha government on Thursday announced that Corona Warriors including doctors and other frontline health workers will get COVID-19 vaccine free of cost in the State. Informing this development, the State Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Das said that the vaccination against coronavirus is likely to begin from January 2021. While talking to […]

New York: The United States on Friday authorised a second Covid-19 vaccine in a single week’s time, green lighting a shot developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health for emergency use in Americans of 18 years and older. The Moderna approval comes exactly a week after the US Food and Drug Administration […]

Washington: Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got their first dose of vaccine against the novel coronavirus on Friday. “Today, with confidence in science and at the direction of the Office of the Attending Physician, I received the Covid-19 vaccine,” informed Pelosi in a tweet on […]

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden and wife Jill will be given vaccination against novel coronavirus publicly on Monday. The announcement was made on Friday night by Jen Psaki, the Biden administration’s White House Press Secretary, The Hill news website reported. According to the team, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive her vaccine next week. The […]

Tel Aviv:  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday initiated the COVID vaccination drive in Israel as he received the vaccine shot against the coronavirus on live television, becoming the first Israeli and one of the world’s leaders to be inoculated. Israel is set to begin vaccinating its health workers and nursing home residents beginning […]

Jakarta: In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalise deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the clerics had a much different concern: Whether the COVID-19 vaccine was permissible for use under Islamic law. As companies race to develop a COVID-19 […]