Indian company is the fourth one to apply for emergency use in the Philippines. Indian vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech decides to span out from the country and supply vaccines to other countries. On Thursday, the company filed an application for the emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine- Covaxin in the Philippines, according to a report … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the launch of COVID-19 vaccination drive. (Photo source: ANI) Coronavirus vaccination in India LIVE UPDATES: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccination programme via video conferencing. While launching the drive the prime minister said that a vaccination drive at such a massive scale was never … Read more
Dr Swaminathan points out that variants of a virus are always going to arise. There will be many mutations over time and genomic data needs to be analysed temporally as there is little value in a one-time snapshot.” (Photo: The Indian Express) The container carrying the first instalment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine travelled more swiftly … Read more
COVID vaccine: To other question on the amount of stock of vaccines already made and ready, he said, the company has a stockpile of 20 million doses and has plans to ramp up production to 700 million doses from four plants so supply should not be a problem. (Representational photo/Reuters/File Photo) At 5 pm on … Read more
Bharat Biotech coronavirus vaccine Covaxin update: A medic fills a syringe with COVAXIN, COVID-19 vaccine, before administering it to a health worker during its trials, at the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society in Ahmedabad. (Reuters/File Photo) Bharat Biotech Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin update: Bharat Biotech’s chairman Krishna Ella hit out at critics on Monday saying … Read more
Coronavirus vaccine update: After giving its approval to Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the subject expert committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation(CDSCO) on Saturday gave its nod for Covaxin for the emergence use. According to sources, the panel recommends granting approval for restricted emergency use of Bharat Biotech’s indigenous COVID vaccine Covaxin in India, news … Read more
On Thursday, Drugs Controller General Dr VG Somani made a statement in an event that this new year will be happy “with something in hand and that’s what I can hint at.” With the beginning of new year 2021 in India, health experts are likely to conduct a meeting today and applications for the emergency … Read more
Paul believes that even if Pfizer vaccine will come to India, it will be after a few months, and the health department will chalk out a different strategy. After the approval for rolling out Coronavirus vaccines in the UK, Pfizer’s entry is Indian market is much more of an academic interest. It is known that … Read more
The complainant also demanded that the ongoing trials in India of the vaccine candidate be immediately halted. Vaccine major Serum Institute of India (SII) on Sunday strongly refuted an allegation that Covishield, the vaccine candidate for Covid-19, which is in the third phase of human trials in India, triggered adverse reaction in a Chennai-based 40-year-old … Read more
Indigenous Coronavirus vaccine candidate Covaxin, jointly developed by Bharat Biotech and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), last week entered the third phase of the Human trial. Coronavirus vaccine update: Even as coronavirus cases in some parts of the country have been witnessing a sudden spike in the past few weeks, here’s a piece … Read more