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...

Some rich countries, including those in the European Union, calculated that they had more than enough doses available through bilateral dea...

The programme aims to distribute enough vaccines to protect at least 20% of the population in 92 low- or medium-income countries.

In a meeting held on Friday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke about the lack of “political will” for sharing vaccines ...

An extended halt to exports of COVID-19 vaccines from India, where authorities are battling a wave of domestic infections, risks derailing ...

Battling the world's biggest jump in coronavirus infections, India halted vaccine exports a month ago after donating or selling more than 6...

"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...

AstraZeneca doses produced under licence in India form the overwhelming bulk of vaccines that COVAX has been anticipating for the initial m...

Vaccines that have not undergone a bridging trial will not be accepted, a senior government official told ET. A bridging trial is a study c...

Questions 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, 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 offered to supply vaccines to COVAX even as it awaited emergency approval for its shots from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The global health body has warned that such deals were driving up vaccine prices and could delay the launch of COVAX, an initiative aimed a...

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level, annou...

COVAX is an initiative of WHO and the Gavi vaccine alliance to develop and equitably distribute and an approved Covid-19 vaccine.

Bilateral deals are not a way to optimise the situation, World Health Organization’s chief scientist told, adding: “WHO is discouraging cou...

This week member states of the World Health Organisation including India have to send in their comments on their position regarding an agre...