Serum likely to start vaccine supplies to Covax this weekIn an interview to ET in October, SII chief executive Adar Poonawalla said that large exports would start from January, whereas small expor...
16 Nov, 2021, 07.11 AM IST
Serum Institute looks to supply 25 million doses to Covax till DecemberThe Covax facility was created last year to ensure Covid vaccines were made available around the world, with richer countries subsidising c...
10 Nov, 2021, 07.06 PM IST
‘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...
10 Sep, 2021, 11.14 AM IST
'We are waiting to die': Hope wanes for world's poor after India halts vaccine exportsWhen John Omondi received his COVID-19 vaccination last month, the Kenyan taxi driver counted himself as one of the lucky ones. Now, he's n...
19 May, 2021, 11.08 PM IST
WHO reminds Serum Institute of its COVAX commitments amidst devastating COVID outbreak, soaring demand in IndiaCOVAX, "the global COVID vaccine equity scheme", has so far delivered 65 million doses to 124 countries and economies but it is dependent o...
18 May, 2021, 06.36 PM IST
WHO urges rich countries to donate shots instead of vaccinating childrenThe World Health Organization urged rich countries on Friday to reconsider plans to vaccinate children and instead donate COVID-19 shots to...
14 May, 2021, 07.26 PM 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
How a WHO push for global vaccines needled EuropeDespite pledging billions of dollars for the scheme set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) and publicly endorsing it, European Union...
21 Apr, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
Asian countries scramble for vaccine supplies after India export curbsSeveral Asian countries scrambled to find alternative sources for COVID-19 inoculations on Tuesday after export restrictions by manufacture...
30 Mar, 2021, 05.26 PM IST
CanSinoBIO offered tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to COVAX: ExecutiveChina has four locally developed COVID-19 vaccines approved for public use and pledged earlier to supply 10 million doses to COVAX without ...
25 Mar, 2021, 02.04 PM IST
WHO DG thanks PM for support to COVAX, Modi says India committed to sharing resources"Thanks India & Prime Minister @narendramodi for supporting Vaccine Equity. Your commitment to COVAX and sharing COVID-19 vaccine doses is ...
26 Feb, 2021, 10.29 PM 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
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...
18 Feb, 2021, 06.53 PM IST
Serum Institute of India, UNICEF enter into long-term supply for COVID-19 vaccinesIndia is one of the world's biggest drugmakers, and an increasing number of countries have already approached it for procuring the coronavi...
04 Feb, 2021, 01.36 PM IST
China's COVID-19 vaccine makers apply to join COVAX schemeThe COVAX scheme - led by the World Health Organization and GAVI vaccine alliance - is due to start rolling out vaccines to poor and middle...
20 Jan, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024The World Health Organization's COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle income countries around th...
16 Dec, 2020, 11.38 PM IST