Health Ministry likely to approve Corbevax as booster for adults vaccinated with Covishield, Covaxin"Corbevax will be considered as a precaution dose after completion of 6 months or 26 weeks from the date of administration of the second do...
09 Aug, 2022, 06.16 PM IST
NTAGI has found Corbevax efficient as a booster, govt may soon recommend it: Drug Controller General of IndiaThe National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) which reviewed the data of Corbevax earlier had found significant antibody re...
04 Aug, 2022, 01.01 AM IST
Corbevax gets DCGI nod as heterologous Covid booster dose for adultsThe vaccine can be administered after 6 months of administration of primary vaccination (two doses) of Covaxin or Covishield vaccines for r...
04 Jun, 2022, 11.18 PM IST
Each dose of Covishield, Covaxin likely to be capped at Rs 275 after getting regular market approvalAccording to them, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has been directed to start working towards capping the price to mak...
26 Jan, 2022, 03.54 PM IST
Soon, we'll know whether vaccines are effective against Omicron variantThe ICMR-National Institute of Virlogiy have received samples of the Mumbai man infected with Omicron variant and research is underway to a...
06 Dec, 2021, 02.23 PM IST
Serum Institute's Cyrus Poonawalla says mixing vaccine is a bad, bad ideaIf anything misfires, "Serum will say that the other vaccine as not good and they (other vaccine company) will blame us claiming there was ...
13 Aug, 2021, 05.39 PM IST
India's drug regulator okays study on mixing of Covaxin and Covishield doses"The aim of the study is to assess the feasibility on whether a person can be given two different vaccine shots -- one each of Covishield a...
12 Aug, 2021, 10.18 AM IST
Apollo hospitals MD calls Covaxin, Covishield combination results 'encouraging'Covaxin contains dead virus of Covid which triggers the immune system to draw up a defense system against Covid while Covishield is vector ...
09 Aug, 2021, 02.41 PM IST
Monthly production capacity of Covishield projected to increase to 120 million doses, Covaxin to 58 million doses: MinisterUnion Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya was responding to a question on the current capacity to manufacture Covaxin and Covishield in the c...
03 Aug, 2021, 03.55 PM IST
Panel approves study on mixing Covishield and Covaxin dosesThe Subject Expert Committee (SEC) under India’s drug regulator allowed CMC-Vellore to conduct a study to test how mixing Covishield and Co...
30 Jul, 2021, 09.51 AM IST
Centre’s vaccination bill nears Rs 9,725 crore, Lok Sabha toldThe Centre has spent Rs 8,071.09 crore to buy vaccines and remaining about `1,654.06 crore on operational costs for administering the vacci...
23 Jul, 2021, 11.52 PM IST
Vaccine production at 135 million doses a month, will rise: GovernmentThe government also said that production capacity will be increased: SII expects that Covishield production will go up to more than 120 mil...
21 Jul, 2021, 07.39 AM IST
Karnataka runs out of second dose Covaxin for 45+The vaccination shortage has left people waiting for their second dose in the lurch. According to government guidelines, the recommended ga...
12 May, 2021, 08.38 PM IST
Delhi has run out of Covaxin stock for 18-44 age group, will have to shut 125 centres: AAP MLA Atishi"We have run out of Covaxin stock for 18-44 age group and will have to shut 125 centres where it is being administered after Tuesday evenin...
11 May, 2021, 08.55 PM IST
Over 79 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses available with states/UTs: CentreThe Centre has so far provided nearly 16.37 crore vaccine doses to states/UTs free of cost. Of this, the total consumption, including wasta...
01 May, 2021, 01.08 PM IST
Covishield comprises over 90 per cent of 12.76 crore COVID vaccines administered so farGiving details, of the 127,605,870 COVID-19 vaccination jabs administered till now, 11,60,65,107 are of Covishield while 1,15,40,763 are of...
21 Apr, 2021, 01.41 PM IST
Covaxin in Punjab and Kerala freezers till phase-3 trial resultsSpeaking to ET, Punjab health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said: “We don’t want to deploy the vaccine right away. Our expert panel of doctor...
15 Feb, 2021, 11.56 PM IST