German Chancellor Angela Merkel gets Moderna as second jab after AstraZeneca first doseThe 66-year-old took her first dose of AstraZeneca's vaccine in April, more than two weeks after German authorities recommended use of the ...
22 Jun, 2021, 07.09 PM IST
AstraZeneca, RDIF evince interest in Telangana's global tender for COVID-19 vaccineTelangana recently issued a globale-tendernotice for procuring ten million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from manufacturers or their agents in ...
27 May, 2021, 07.03 PM IST
EU and AstraZeneca battle in court over vaccine delaysThe EU is suing the British-Swedish pharmaceutical group in a bid to force it to deliver 90 million more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine befo...
26 May, 2021, 09.05 AM IST
Russia says Sputnik V vaccine does not cause blood clots"A comprehensive analysis of adverse events during clinical trials and over the course of mass vaccinations with the Sputnik V vaccine show...
15 Apr, 2021, 01.46 PM IST
Denmark drops AstraZeneca vaccine for good, in European firstDespite recommendations from the World Health Organization and European medicines watchdog to continue using the inoculation, "Denmark's va...
14 Apr, 2021, 06.31 PM IST
WHO says surplus AstraZeneca vaccines in rich nations must go to poor countriesWHO said there is an acute shortage of vaccines and most countries did not have any doses to cover frontline workers such as healthcare sta...
11 Apr, 2021, 04.50 PM IST
Clots are AstraZeneca's latest curseThe British laboratory made headlines in November when it claimed its jab could match the 90 percent effectiveness of the rival and much mo...
07 Apr, 2021, 11.19 PM IST
European Medicines Agency confirms clots as 'very rare' AstraZeneca side effectNo specific risk factors, including age, have been identified for thrombosis with the AstraZeneca shot, which could stem from an immune res...
07 Apr, 2021, 08.55 PM IST
Dutch halt AstraZeneca jabs for under-60sThe move comes after five new cases in the Netherlands affecting women between 25 and 65 years of age, the health ministry said in a statem...
02 Apr, 2021, 09.17 PM IST
Covid vaccine: Why is AstraZeneca making so many unforced errors?The has been communication of scientific results. November data from trials in the U.K. and Brazil generated confusion over efficacy. This ...
25 Mar, 2021, 02.14 PM IST
EU countries to resume AstraZeneca jabs after 'safe' verdictThe closely-watched announcement from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) came after the WHO and Britain's health watchdog both said the va...
19 Mar, 2021, 08.40 AM IST
Key questions as EU watchdog rules on AstraZenecaThe EMA is the regulator for all human and animal medicines in the 27 nations of the European Union plus the European Economic Area countri...
18 Mar, 2021, 10.33 AM IST
WHO reviewing data, recommends AstraZeneca Covid jabs continue"The WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety is carefully assessing the latest available safety data," the UN health agency said in...
18 Mar, 2021, 08.29 AM IST
WHO insists AstraZeneca vaccine safe as jab faces new setbacksThe WHO, which said its vaccines advisory committee was examining the safety data coming in, Friday stressed that no causal link has been e...
13 Mar, 2021, 10.22 AM IST
AstraZeneca says 'no evidence' of higher blood clots risk from vaccine"An analysis of our safety data of more than 10 million records has shown no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism or deep ve...
12 Mar, 2021, 09.40 PM IST
Denmark, Norway, Iceland suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccineThe move comes "following reports of serious cases of blood clots among people vaccinated with AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine", the Danish ...
11 Mar, 2021, 07.55 PM IST
Germany joins EU call for controls on vaccine exportsLast Friday, British-Swedish company AstraZeneca said it would not meet its contractual delivery commitments to the European Union because ...
26 Jan, 2021, 11.11 PM IST