Serum Institute of India receives Health Canada approval to supply vaccines to CanadaCanada has an agreement with AZ to receive 20 million doses. The approval to Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc./Serum Institute of India product h...
27 Feb, 2021, 06.42 AM IST
Single dose of Pfizer and Astrazeneca Covid vaccines highly effective: StudiesIsraeli studies have found the Pfizer vaccine to be 95 percent effective one week after a second jab, while the Lancet report focused on mo...
20 Feb, 2021, 07.07 AM IST
South Africa denies asking Serum to take back 1 million vaccine dosesA phase I/II trial conducted by University of Witwatersrand and Oxford University on 2,000 volunteers with a median age of 31 years found t...
17 Feb, 2021, 09.25 PM IST
Covid vaccine drive from Jan 13; SII, Bharat Bio make peaceThe Co-WIN app announced by the government will be central to the registration process.
06 Jan, 2021, 08.43 AM IST
SII can supply 10m doses to govt in January: Adar PoonawallaThe company is ready to start rolling out supplies of its Covishield vaccine in a week’s time, Poonawalla said. SII is waiting for a formal...
02 Jan, 2021, 08.13 AM IST
Serum's chances for Covishield nod rise after UK regulator approves Oxford COVID-19 vaccineThe SEC was called soon after the UK regulator authorised Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for use. The approval by UK regu...
30 Dec, 2020, 01.39 PM IST
AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine still under review: UK drug regulatorThe subject expert committee in India is awaiting a nod from the UK's regulator to sign off on the marketing authorisation for SII to deliv...
19 Dec, 2020, 06.54 AM IST
India in touch with UK drug officials on Oxford Covid-19 vaccine: Vaccine Task Force Committee“India’s drug regulator is in touch with UK drug authorities on the approval progress of the AZ/Oxford vaccine trial,” Vinod Paul, head of ...
15 Dec, 2020, 09.10 AM IST
India may have 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses by MarchCompanies such as Zydus Cadila, Bharat Biotech, Dr Reddys-Gamaleya Institute, Serum Institute-AstraZeneca and Gennova are expected to submi...
14 Dec, 2020, 07.13 AM IST
Single Covid-19 vaccine dose or double? Data put regulators in a fixThe US Food and Drug Administration has released its findings on the Pfizer/BioNtech efficacy data where it suggested that the vaccine at a...
11 Dec, 2020, 07.10 AM IST
AZ-Oxford vaccine safe & efficacious: Interim analysis“ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 has an acceptable safety profile and has been found to be efficacious against symptomatic Covid-19 in this interim analysi...
09 Dec, 2020, 07.20 AM IST
The curious case of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccineThe company announced that in a small subgroup of the trial participants the vaccine showed better efficacy when administered a half dose f...
28 Nov, 2020, 07.10 AM IST
Covid-19 vaccines are coming to India, but are we ready for a rollout?While most experts are confident that India will get a vaccine, their concern is how the country will scale up to vaccinate its 1.3 billion...
26 Nov, 2020, 06.30 AM IST
Serum Institute of India to also halt trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine candidateAZ on Wednesday morning said that it was temporarily halting the trial of the vaccine candidate after one of the participants developed "un...
10 Sep, 2020, 12.06 PM IST
India may get COVID-19 vaccine by early 2021, says Bernstein ResearchWhile the vaccine could be available at USD 3-6 (Rs 225 to Rs 550) per dose, herd immunity might be two years away due to implementation ch...
28 Aug, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
Serum Institute initiates phase 2, 3 clinical study for potential COVID-19 vaccineAccording to the Clinical Trial Registry India, the scientific title of the study says that phase 2/3 clinical trial will be observer-blind...
19 Aug, 2020, 10.48 PM IST
Serum Institute to price Covid-19 vaccine at $3 per dose for India and lower middle income nationsAs part of the agreement SII will also get upfront capital of $150 mn via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help the company increas...
07 Aug, 2020, 02.41 PM IST