Canada is going to throw out about 13.6 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine because it couldn’t find any takers for it either at home or abroad. Canada signed a contract with AstraZeneca in 2020 to get 20 million doses of its vaccine, and 2.3 million Canadians received at least one dose of it, … Read more
In the light of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s move to suspend supply of Covaxin produced by Hyderabad- headquartered Bharat Biotech, through UN procurement agencies, those in the Indian vaccine industry feel the focus will now increasingly be on the Indian drug regulator – the office of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) and … Read more
Biological E Managing Director Mahima Datla Call it a tale of two leading vaccine makers from the same city. Biological E, yet another company from Hyderabad after Bharat Biotech, is now gearing up to begin its Covid vaccine supplies. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin was developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and … Read more
The companies said the vaccine was well tolerated with mild to moderate fever in fewer than 20% of the participants. (Representational image: Reuters) Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE said the Covid-19 vaccine they are jointly developing is on track to be submitted for regulatory review as early as October, as they released additional data from … Read more