‘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
COVAX vaccine 2021 delivery target cut to 1.4 billion dosesThe head of the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, which sponsors the COVAX programme along with the World Health Organisation, Unicef and the Coalitio...
09 Sep, 2021, 07.58 AM IST
Well-vaccinated countries should prioritise COVAX over booster shots, says WHO's TedrosSpeaking in Berlin at the opening of a new epidemic intelligence hub, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries with spar...
01 Sep, 2021, 09.09 PM IST
Covid-19: Where a vast global vaccination program COVAX went wrongKnown as COVAX, the program was supposed to be a global powerhouse, a multibillion-dollar alliance of international health bodies and nonpr...
02 Aug, 2021, 01.08 PM IST
UN-backed program trims forecast to supply COVID-19 vaccineGavi, the Vaccine Alliance, says it now projects that the COVAX program can supply just under 1.9 billion doses this year -- including abou...
25 Jun, 2021, 08.48 AM IST
India may not resume Covid vaccine supply to Covax until Q4: Experts“Keeping in view the domestic demand, we will not be able to supply doses to the Covax facility till the situation improves in India,” a se...
25 May, 2021, 11.03 AM 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 chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urges COVID-19 vaccine makers to advance doses for COVAXCOVAX, which supplies doses to poorer countries, relies heavily on India's Serum Institute's exports of the AstraZeneca shot but many of th...
17 May, 2021, 08.52 PM IST
COVAX in talks for other COVID-19 shots amid AstraZeneca supply problemsThe global programme - co-led by the GAVI vaccine alliance and the World Health Organization (WHO) - said that while it was hoping to resta...
22 Apr, 2021, 09.24 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
US to contribute additional $2 billion to vaccines alliance Gavi through 2022"We applaud the other countries who have made and delivered pledges, which have put us on track to meet Gavi's initial goal to deliver vacc...
15 Apr, 2021, 08.21 PM 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
GAVI warns of delay in vaccine deliveries by Serum InstituteThe AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine is being produced under licence in India for the Covax scheme, also led by GAVI, which is meant to ensure th...
26 Mar, 2021, 09.43 AM IST
'Helpless': Alarm after India delays vaccines to COVAX programme for poor countriesAstraZeneca doses produced under licence in India form the overwhelming bulk of vaccines that COVAX has been anticipating for the initial m...
25 Mar, 2021, 07.53 PM IST
India to take Covax doses only if they meet criteriaVaccines that have not undergone a bridging trial will not be accepted, a senior government official told ET. A bridging trial is a study c...
05 Mar, 2021, 08.10 AM IST
Covid: WHO criticises countries, vaccine companies over bilateral dealsThe global health body has warned that such deals were driving up vaccine prices and could delay the launch of COVAX, an initiative aimed a...
19 Jan, 2021, 08.08 AM IST
Global partnership COVAX secures two billion COVID-19 vaccine dosesCOVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level, annou...
19 Dec, 2020, 10.39 AM IST