Tag: Covid Vaccine

New Delhi: World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said that young and healthy people may have to wait till 2022 to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Swaminathan also stressed that health workers and those at highest risks should be prioritised. She indicated that, despite the many vaccine trials being undertaken, speedy, mass […]

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted approval to Dr Reddy’s, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India, to conduct phase 2 and 3 clinical human trials of the Sputnik V, a Covid-19 vaccine made by Russia. On September 16, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Limited […]

Jerusalem: Israel has named its COVID-19 vaccine candidate ‘Brilife’ and its human trials will begin by October-end, according to an official press release. The prospective vaccine is being developed by the Israel Institute of Biological Research (IIBR) that was established in 1952 as part of the Israel Defence Forces’ Science Corps, and later became a […]

New Delhi: A digital health identity under the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) will not be mandatory to get vaccinated when immunization against COVID-19 is available, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The ambitious NDHM programme was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech. As per the programme, everyone enrolled […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the BJP announced free Covid-19 vaccination for all in Bihar as part of its election manifesto; the announcement has heated up politics in Odisha. Ruling-BJD legislator Arabinda Dhali reacted sharply at BJP’s announcement and said it is ‘appalling’ that a vaccine to fight the pandemic is being made a poll agenda. […]

Bhubaneswar: The third and final phase of the ongoing clinical trials of Covaxin – India’s indigenous Covid-19 vaccine candidate will shortly begin in Odisha. The Phase III trials of Covaxin will be conducted at 21 centres across India and at SUM hospital in Odisha (Bhubaneswar). The vaccine will be administered to nearly 2,000 volunteers in […]

Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) will start human clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate Brilife from November 1 after receiving all necessary approvals from the Ministry of Health and the Helsinki Committee, the Israeli Defence Ministry said. The Helsinki Committee deals with research approval and human experiments. The committee is mandated to […]

New Delhi: The Russian Direct Investment Fund, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has submitted applications to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for accelerated registration and prequalification of Sputnik V, the world’s first registered vaccine against the coronavirus. Russia has become one of the first countries to apply to WHO for prequalification of its vaccine against […]

New Delhi: The Centre has asked states to constitute committees for coordination and overseeing COVID-19 vaccination drive while ensuring minimal disruptions in other routine healthcare services, and stressed early tracking of social media to dispel rumours which could impact the community acceptance of coronavirus inoculation. Stating that COVID-19 vaccine introduction will span over a year […]

New Delhi: The Bacille Calmette-Guerin or BCG vaccine, originally made against tuberculosis, may help in the management of Covid-19, especially in the elderly, says a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The BCG vaccination is known to induce innate immune memory, which confers protection against several infections, the study uploaded as preprint […]

New Delhi: The government has planned to start the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine first to the healthcare workers followed by other groups to be added “sequentially”. The distribution drive would take place over a year. For this, the states and union territories would form a three-tier system as per the Centre’s directions. “In all likelihood, […]

Berlin: German vaccine maker CureVac on Monday said that interim results from early trials showed that its investigational Covid-19 vaccine candidate, CvnCoV, appeared safe and triggered immune response among volunteers. The vaccine candidate was generally well tolerated across all tested doses and induced strong binding and neutralising antibody responses in addition to first indication of […]

Washington: An innovative nanoparticle vaccine candidate for the Covid-19 virus produces virus-neutralizing antibodies in mice at levels 10X greater than is seen in people who have recovered from the infections, say researchers. Designed by scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, the vaccine candidate has been transferred to two companies for […]

Moscow: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has shown 92 per cent efficacy in preventing COVID-19, according to interim trial results announced by the country’s health ministry on Wednesday. The announcement follows results unveiled earlier this week by vaccine developers Pfizer and BioNTech, who said their vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective at preventing COVID-19. […]

New Delhi: The key vaccines India is banking on are from Oxford/AstraZeneca, Novavax and J&J and the earliest efficacy data is expected by the end of November-December 2020 and in the best case, vaccines can be rolled out in January 2021. According to a research by Credit Suisse, India needs about 1.7 billion Covid-19 vaccine […]