Covid-19: Tika Utsav doesn’t do the trick, vaccination levels remain low
While a total of 11.2 crore vaccine doses have been given, compared to around 19.5 crore for the US, India’s performance is much poorer in terms Read More…
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Serum’s new Covid-19 vaccines yet to get emergency use authorisation
Serum has partnered with USA-based biotechnology company, Codagenix Inc, for global manufacturing and supply of another Covid-19 vaccine. The new vRead More…
Remdesivir shortage: Centre urges doctors to prescribe vital drug only for severe patients who are on oxygen support
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan was quoted as saying that the centre had supplied 13.10 crore vaccine doses to the states and states had onlyRead More…
Govt fast-tracks emergency approval for foreign vaccines: What it means for manufacturers and India
The development was announced on Tuesday, and the move is expected to accelerate India’s access to foreign vaccines.Coronavirus vaccination in InRead More…
Covid-19 UK variant spreading faster but no proof of it being more dangerous: Lancet study
The study compared the behaviour of the virus among patients who were infected with the B.1.1.7 variant and those patients who had been infected wiRead More…
India to become Russian Sputnik V vaccine’s production hub, to start making 50 mn doses per month by summer
India is the most populous country to approve Sputnik V. India’s medicine regulator Drugs Controller General of India has cleared Russia’s SpuRead More…
Where did the govt’s Rs 900 crore R&D grant for COVID vaccine development go?
Vaccine development cost estimates vary depending on who one is talking to. (Representational image: Reuters)It has been five months since the goveRead More…
Co-Win portal can handle vaccination for all, says RS Sharma
The peak vaccination rate was one million per hour and that translated to a few hundred per second.The Co-Win vaccine registration portal can handlRead More…
Coronavirus Live Updates: India’s daily caseload shoot up to 1,84,372; over 1,000 Covid deaths in last 24 hours
Coronavirus India Lockdown Live tracker: The migrant workforce in Maharashtra is packing bags again While the Thackeray govt has tried very hard tRead More…
States to get supply of 2.01 crore Coronavirus vaccine doses
Kerala was the only state in the country that had zero wastage.The central government has till date supplied 13.10 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses to Read More…