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‘India won’t supply jabs to Covax until all adults are vaccinated’In May this year, when Covid cases started surging once again in India, SII CEO Adar Poonawalla had said that the SII will continue to scal...
Back of the line: Charity only goes so far in world vaccinesSome rich countries, including those in the European Union, calculated that they had more than enough doses available through bilateral dea...
‘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.
Poor countries deprived of COVAX supply, says WHO chiefIn a meeting held on Friday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke about the lack of “political will” for sharing vaccines ...
India's halt to vaccine exports 'very problematic' for AfricaAn extended halt to exports of COVID-19 vaccines from India, where authorities are battling a wave of domestic infections, risks derailing ...
India unlikely to resume sizable COVID-19 vaccine exports until October: SourcesBattling the world's biggest jump in coronavirus infections, India halted vaccine exports a month ago after donating or selling more than 6...
US to contribute additional $2 billion to vaccines alliance Gavi through 2022"We applaud the other countries who have made and delivered pledges, which have put us on track to meet Gavi's initial goal to deliver vacc...
'Helpless': Alarm after India delays vaccines to COVAX programme for poor countriesAstraZeneca doses produced under licence in India form the overwhelming bulk of vaccines that COVAX has been anticipating for the initial m...
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...
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...
Pakistan to receive 2.8 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine under COVAX scheme on March 2Pakistan, which has recorded more than 550,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 12,000 deaths, is still largely reliant on the GAVI/WHO COVA...
China steps up vaccine diplomacy as competition with India heats upChina offered to supply vaccines to COVAX even as it awaited emergency approval for its shots from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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...
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...
WHO reviews nine vaccine candidates for Covax allianceCOVAX is an initiative of WHO and the Gavi vaccine alliance to develop and equitably distribute and an approved Covid-19 vaccine.
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...
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...