Covid-19: Where a vast global vaccination program COVAX went wrongKnown as COVAX, the program was supposed to be a global powerhouse, a multibillion-dollar alliance of international health bodies and nonpr...
02 Aug, 2021, 01.08 PM IST
‘Indemnity clause must be waived for vaccines distributed via Covax’The programme aims to distribute enough vaccines to protect at least 20% of the population in 92 low- or medium-income countries.
14 Jul, 2021, 07.50 AM IST
Chinese vaccine makers sign COVAX agreementsGavi, the vaccine partnership playing a leading role in COVAX, announced that it would buy 110 million doses from Sinopharm and Sinovac bet...
13 Jul, 2021, 07.49 AM IST
India unlikely to get Pfizer doses via Covax. Here's whyOn June 10, the company announced that it had secured 500 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine at a not-for-profit price for...
30 Jun, 2021, 10.00 AM IST
Covax signs deal for 500 mn Moderna Covid vaccine dosesThe doses, to come on stream from October at the earliest, will broaden out the portfolio of vaccines in the Covax scheme, which has so far...
03 May, 2021, 05.01 PM IST
India to take Covax doses only if they meet criteriaVaccines that have not undergone a bridging trial will not be accepted, a senior government official told ET. A bridging trial is a study c...
05 Mar, 2021, 08.10 AM IST
WHO agrees compensation fund for serious COVAX vaccine side effectsQuestions of how compensation claims would be handled in the event of any serious COVID-19 vaccine side effects, which are likely to be ver...
22 Feb, 2021, 11.05 PM IST
GAVI inks pact with Serum Institute of India, Novavax for Covid-19 vaccine supplyThe Novavax vaccine has shown 90% efficacy in phase 3 clinical trials in the UK that enrolled more than 15,000 participants aged 18-84 year...
20 Feb, 2021, 07.22 AM IST
Johnson & Johnson submits emergency use listing to WHO for COVID-19 vaccineJohnson & Johnson said on Friday it had submitted for emergency use listing of its COVID-19 vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO).
19 Feb, 2021, 06.52 PM IST
WHO says deal with Pfizer to allow poor countries to start vaccinating in FebruaryThe COVAX programme has signed deals for hundreds of millions of doses to vaccinate people in poor and lower-middle income countries, but h...
22 Jan, 2021, 11.09 PM IST
Covid: WHO criticises countries, vaccine companies over bilateral dealsThe global health body has warned that such deals were driving up vaccine prices and could delay the launch of COVAX, an initiative aimed a...
19 Jan, 2021, 08.08 AM IST
Centre has not banned export of any COVID-19 vaccine: Union health secretaryResponding to a question during a press briefing on Tuesday, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bushan said, "The Union government has not banne...
06 Jan, 2021, 07.32 AM IST
Unicef launches Covid-19 vaccine market dashboardThe dashboard provides a regularly updated overview of the global research and development pipeline, the projected production capacity, pub...
22 Dec, 2020, 12.52 PM IST
Global partnership COVAX secures two billion COVID-19 vaccine dosesCOVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level, annou...
19 Dec, 2020, 10.39 AM IST
India has gained rights for vaccines to cover 50% of population: StudyMost of the rich countries have already purchased 3.8 billion doses of yet-to-be-approved Covid-19 vaccines, with an additional 5 billion d...
03 Nov, 2020, 12.03 AM IST
Signing up for Covax will give India access to many vaccines: Soumya SwaminathanBilateral deals are not a way to optimise the situation, World Health Organization’s chief scientist told, adding: “WHO is discouraging cou...
03 Aug, 2020, 07.04 AM IST
Activists urge India to push for fair allocation of Covid-19 vaccine under COVAXThis week member states of the World Health Organisation including India have to send in their comments on their position regarding an agre...
17 Jul, 2020, 04.16 PM IST