In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic during the second wave, support in the form of Covid-related equipment and medicines were receiv...

The Pune based vaccines manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII) has got the nod to export Covid vaccines under the COVAX programme, sai...

SII will commence Covid vaccine export under the COVAX programme from November 23 and Nepal will receive the first lot of Covishield on Nov...

In an interview to ET in October, SII chief executive Adar Poonawalla said that large exports would start from January, whereas small expor...

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 ...

The 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...

The 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...

The global programme - co-led by the GAVI vaccine alliance and the World Health Organization (WHO) - said that while it was hoping to resta...

Several Asian countries scrambled to find alternative sources for COVID-19 inoculations on Tuesday after export restrictions by manufacture...

India itself has received more than a third of the nearly 28 million Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered so far by the...

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...

According to an EU official who spoke anonymously, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen will make the announcement later Frid...

The COVAX programme has signed deals for hundreds of millions of doses to vaccinate people in poor and lower-middle income countries, but h...

The World Health Organization's COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle income countries around th...