To date,India has administeredaround 160 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine (the predominant shots being used are theAstraZenecashot, produced locally as Covishield, as well as an indigenous vaccine called Covaxin developed by Bharat Biotech). In April it approved Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine...
But hurried approval of its own vaccine threatens to undermine domestic trust, writes Kamala Thiagarajan On 3 January, India's top drug regulator issued emergency approval for two vaccines for restricted use against covid-19, even though phase III clinical trials for Covishield and Covaxin are ...
NEW DELHI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- India's top health research body Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is likely to launch the first COVID-19 vaccine by Aug. 15 in partnership with Hyderabad-based vaccine manufacturing company Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL). "It is envisaged ...
India, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. India on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, cleared a new approach to COVID-19 vaccination, a nasal version designed to fight the virus right where it enters the body. The vaccine was developed by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis...
India has been in the midst of a second wave of COVID-19 and has over 3.7 million active cases with 262,317 deaths reported as of Friday. In the coming months, more consignments of vaccines would be imported till the Sputnik vaccine is locally manufactured in India as the company is wor...
Serum Institute of India (SII), Pune, has signed agreements with a few manufacturers such as Oxford-AstraZeneca, Codagenix, and Novavax. It is now producing at a large scale, the Oxford-AstraZeneca Adenovirus vector-based vaccine AZD1222 (which goes under the name “Covishield” in India),...
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we have rolled them out to billions of people around the world. These new vaccines give our body a recipe to make new spike protein, a foreign protein, a viral protein with no off-switch for an indefinite period of time. This vaccine does not stay in the shoulder muscle, it circulates...
NEW DELHI, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- A dry run for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine and overall administration has been held across India on Saturday, said the federal health ministry. Each state should designate at least three sites for the dry run, said an official statement. The sites ...
Johnson and Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine is given approval for Emergency Use in India". This will further boost India's collective fight against the pandemic, he added. According to earlier reports, the company is expected to launch the vaccine in India in collaboration with Hyderabad...