The government plans to expedite the process of recognition of COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax by other countries while its manufacturer Biological E pursues WHO’s emergency use listing for the jab being administered in India among the 12-14 years age group. According to an internal document circulated to the members of the Empowered Group-5 on COVID-19 Vaccination, … Read more
A shipment of 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Rwanda on Saturday included the billionth dose supplied via the COVAX programme. The World Health Organization said Sunday that a UN-backed programme shipping coronavirus vaccines to many poor countries has now delivered 1 billion doses, but that milestone “is only a reminder of the work that … Read more
The global initiative to share coronavirus vaccines fairly already scaled back its pledge to the world’s poor once. Now, to meet even that limited promise, COVAX would have to deliver more than a million doses every hour until the end of the year in some of the world’s most challenging places. That seems unlikely: Gavi, … Read more
Serum Institute of India has sent doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Indonesia, in its first export of the Novavax shot through the COVAX network, the Indian government said on Wednesday. The world’s biggest vaccine maker exported 137,500 doses of Covovax, as it calls the shot, to the Southeast Asian country last week. Indonesia has approved … Read more
Bharat Biotech will add additional countries to its list of Covaxin export destinations in December as more countries grant emergency-use approvals. (File) After Serum Institute of India, Bharat Biotech on Monday said it had begun exports of its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin. The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month granted the India-made jab emergency-use approval. … Read more
A commitment of around 1.4 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses was made by countries across the world to the COVAX facility. India will resume its Covid-19 vaccine supplies to COVAX countries this week, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, scientist at the World Health Organisation, said on Monday. Covishield doses should be going out this week from the Serum … Read more
The global programme providing COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries is on course to fall nearly 30 percent short of its previous goal of 2 billion shots this year, the international organisations running it said on Wednesday. The head of the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, which sponsors the COVAX programme along with the World Health Organisation, Unicef … Read more
WHO has been asking rich countries to donate more and more doses to poor countries on an urgent basis COVID-19 vaccine distribution: At present, vaccines seem to be the only solution against the widespread coronavirus pandemic, and to end the pandemic, it is important that vaccines reach all parts of the world. As a result, … Read more
India pulled back its supply of vaccines to the rest of the world after the second wave of pandemic hit the country, resulting in acute global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, the Biden Administration has informed the lawmakers. “When the Delta variant is raging around the world and supply is lacking globally because the Serum Institute … Read more
Top officials at the World Health Organisation say there’s not enough evidence to show that third doses of coronavirus vaccines are needed and appealed on Monday for the scarce shots to be shared with poor countries who have yet to immunize their people instead of being used by rich countries as boosters. At a press … Read more