Panacea Biotec zooms 20% on Rs 1,040-crore order win from UNICEF and PAHOPentavalent vaccine protects children against five deadly diseases: Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B and invasive infections cau...
Panacea wins contract worth $127 million from WHO, PAHO to supply pentavalent vaccineThe vaccine protects children against five deadly diseases: Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B and invasive infections caused by H...
COVID-19 cases at highest ever in Americas, says regional health agencyThe United States continues to have the highest number of new infections, although cases decreased by nearly one million over the last week...
Bharat Biotech's Rotavac 5D receives WHO PrequalificationThe new variant of Rotavac, Rotavac 5D, is a unique rotavirus vaccine formulation that can be administered without a buffer and its low dos...
Lambda variant of COVID-19 not reported in India so far: SourcesA new COVID-19 strain called 'Lambda' is much more dangerous than the Delta variant, said the UK Health Ministry adding that it has been de...
COVID-19: Detected across 30 countries, Lambda variant 'deadlier' than DeltaLambda accounts for nearly 82 percent of the coronavirus case samples reported during May and June in Peru, Euro News reported citing the P...
COVID-19 cases rising again, says Americas health agency, but not in North AmericaColombia is reporting the highest rate of infections in South America, where new cases have nearly tripled in some regions, and Brazil is s...
COVID-19 vaccine supply in Americas to take many months: WHOBrazil is currently reporting the highest incidence of new cases in South America, and the mounting cases and deaths have put its health sy...
UNICEF gearing up for 'mammoth operation' to deliver COVID-19 vaccines globallyMore than 350 logistics partners, including air freight operators, shipping lines and global logistics associations participated in the vir...
Panacea Biotec bags orders worth USD 24 mn from UN agenciesThe vaccine protects children against five deadly diseases, including diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B. "Panacea Biotec... has received ...
Bharat Biotech's typhoid vaccine gets WHO pre-qualificationThis enables the procurement and supplies of this vaccine to UNICEF, Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) and GAVI-supported countries, ...
India top supplier in health sector to UN system in 2016India, a top ten supplier country since 2000, supplied six per cent of procurements by UN organisations in 2016, the second highest after t...
Panacea inks pact with UNICEF,gets USFDA nod for migraine drugPanacea's product is equivalent to Merck & Co's Maxalt-MLT tablets. The drug has annual sales for around USD 60 million in the US market.
'500 million people at risk of contracting Zika in Americas'So far the number of countries and territories in the Americas reporting Zika virus transmission has increased to 37.
Panacea Biotec gets $13.5 million order from PAHOIn a BSE filing, Panacea said it has been elected for the supply of pentavalent vaccine DTP-HepB-Hib by the Pan American Health Organisatio...
- Global economic shocks may throw 16 mn people into poverty: UN
Top UN experts on Latin America and the Caribbean have warned that global economic shocks could throw some 16 million people of the America...
- IAEA conducts nuclear accident response exercise in Mexico
The UN's atomic watchdog said that it would conduct a major exercise to test the response to a simulated accident at a nuclear power plant ...