G7 Summit: UK PM pledges to donate 100 mn COVID vaccine dosesThe UK will donate 100 million surplus coronavirus vaccine doses to the world within the next year, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announc...
11 Jun, 2021, 05.24 PM IST
US removes DPA ratings on AstraZeneca, Novavax, Sanofi vaccines"We have secured enough vaccine supply for all Americans. This is a direct result of the president taking aggressive action, including thro...
04 Jun, 2021, 10.32 AM IST
Japan to consider sharing COVID-19 vaccines amid calls to help TaiwanTaiwan is battling a spike in domestic infections and has vaccinated only about 1% of its population, while Japan has secured more than 400...
28 May, 2021, 10.43 AM IST
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urges COVID-19 vaccine makers to advance doses for COVAXCOVAX, which supplies doses to poorer countries, relies heavily on India's Serum Institute's exports of the AstraZeneca shot but many of th...
17 May, 2021, 08.52 PM IST
COVID: AstraZeneca pledges $250,000 as humanitarian aid to IndiaThe aid to India is part of the USD 1 million which the British-Swedish multinational has earmarked for relief initiatives across communiti...
11 May, 2021, 09.19 PM IST
EU has not yet ordered more AstraZeneca vaccines, says internal market commissionerBreton also said he expected that the costs of the EU's recent order for more doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines would be higher than the ea...
09 May, 2021, 06.13 PM IST
Sweden plans to donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to IndiaThe donation will have no impact on the rollout in Sweden which has decided to only administer the AstraZeneca shots to people 65 and over.
03 May, 2021, 05.50 PM IST
COVAX gets boost from Moderna deal, Sweden's donation of COVID-19 vaccines -GAVIThe advance purchase contract agreed with Moderna is for up to 500 million doses, but the roll out will only start in the fourth quarter, w...
03 May, 2021, 04.00 PM IST
Sri Lanka looking at sources outside India to purchase AstraZeneca vaccine due to supply delay"The supply is being delayed from India. We have to understand that India has to look after their own country before supplying to us. It is...
01 May, 2021, 02.42 PM IST
COVAX in talks for other COVID-19 shots amid AstraZeneca supply problemsThe global programme - co-led by the GAVI vaccine alliance and the World Health Organization (WHO) - said that while it was hoping to resta...
22 Apr, 2021, 09.24 PM IST
Norway lends AstraZeneca vaccine jabs to Sweden, IcelandNorway will lend all of its 216,000 doses of AstraZeneca to neighbouring Sweden and Iceland as long as its own government regulator has pau...
22 Apr, 2021, 06.43 PM IST
Sri Lanka temporarily suspends COVID-19 jabs due to delay in securing vaccines from SII: MinisterSri Lanka launched its inoculation programme in late January when India gifted 500,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca. Till Thursday 913,219 p...
02 Apr, 2021, 11.53 AM IST
India's Serum Institute to delay further vaccine shipments to Brazil, Morocco, Saudi: SourceThe news comes as India, the world's biggest vaccine maker, is being criticised domestically for donating or selling more doses than inocul...
21 Mar, 2021, 11.58 AM IST
Europe pause of AstraZeneca sends ripple of doubt elsewhereAs things stand, it's either AstraZeneca or nothing for some poorer countries. The vaccine from the Anglo-Swedish drug maker is cheaper and...
19 Mar, 2021, 01.06 PM IST
WHO experts to meet over AstraZeneca vaccine blood clot fears as coronavirus cases surgeThe World Health Organization, AstraZeneca, and the European Medicines Agency have insisted the shot is safe, and that there is no link bet...
16 Mar, 2021, 11.05 AM IST
AstraZeneca vaccine's promise now drawn into questionIn the latest, around a dozen countries have suspended its use as a precaution after blood clots suffered by some of those vaccinated.
16 Mar, 2021, 09.34 AM IST
Pakistan to get 2.8 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses from COVAXPakistan this month started the anti-coronavirus vaccination drive with 500,000 doses of Sinopharm's vaccine donated by its ally China.
19 Feb, 2021, 02.35 PM IST