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What you need to know about getting Bharat Biotech's nasal vaccine iNCOVACCBharat Biotech has recently introduced its intranasal Covid vaccine, which will be given as a booster dose, as concerns about the Covid BF....
Many Indians unlikely to be fully vaccinated by year-end despite ample COVID-19 shotsThe locally-produced AstraZeneca vaccine which is known as Covishield has a 12 to 16 week gap between doses, in contrast to the 8 to 12 wee...
No plan to change dosage interval for Covishield for now, says CentreThe government on Thursday said that there was no plan to reduce the dose gap for Covishield as news reports suggested that the 84-day inte...
Reducing gap between two doses of Covishield is being considered: SourcesThe government in May had further extended the gap between the two doses of Covishield from 6-8 weeks to 12-16 weeks and said the decision ...
Covishield vaccine: India will revisit dosage interval based on emerging dataDescribing the Covid and vaccination situation as "very dynamic", N K Arora said in a statement that the emerging evidence and reports rega...
No need to panic on need for immediate change in dosage interval of Covishield: GovtPaul said in the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), there are quite a few people who have been a part of WHO panels...
Centre issues SOPs to administer second dose of Covishield before 84 days in certain casesHowever, according to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by the Union health ministry on Monday, even in these cases, the seco...
Government panel recommends Covid infected to defer vaccine shots by up to 9 monthsThe government committee has also recommended to make pregnant and lactating women eligible for vaccination. The recommendations are likely...
12-16 week gap between Covishield doses, no change for Bharat Biotech's CovaxinIn the last three months, this is the second time that the Covishield dosage intervals have been extended. In March the government decided ...
Govt increases interval between Covishield doses to 12-16 weeks; says the decision is 'science-based'"Based on the available real-life evidences, particularly from the UK, the COVID-19 Working Group agreed for increasing the dosing interval...
Experts to meet on Thursday to discuss vaccine safety for pregnant womenThe government recommended in March that the second Covishield dose should be administered 4-8 weeks after the first dose instead of 4-6 we...
Advisory panel to take call on dosage interval for Covishield next weekThe experts will decide whether to keep the interval as it is, shorten it, or increase the gap, people in the know told ET. “The decision w...
India to extend interval between Covishield vaccine doses to up to eight weeksIn a meeting last week, the experts decided to give flexibility up to 8 weeks for Covishield, a senior government official told ET. However...
India to retain 4-6 week dosing gap for Covid-19 vaccinesCountries such as the UK and Canada that are also using the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford have extended the interval between ...
Three month gap between Oxford vaccine jabs provides better efficacy: StudyThe results of the analysis from a phase 3 randomised controlled trial, published in The Lancet journal, suggest that the interval between ...
Government panel to meet today to examine widening dosage gap of CovishieldAt present, India is giving the second dose of Covishield after a gap of 28 days. However, new evidence suggests that efficacy is better wh...
Health ministry frames detailed guidelines for Covid immunisation precautionsFollowing international protocols, the ministry has prescribed that a person who is suffering from Covid-19 would need to wait 4-6 weeks be...
Covid-19: USFDA warns against tweaking vaccine dosageSuggestions to tweak dosage strategy to overcome a supply crunch are not rooted in solid evidence and hence such a move could put public he...
First batch of Sputnik V vaccine to arrive in Kanpur medical college for Phase 2, 3 trialsThe decision to conduct the human clinical trials of the vaccine was taken after Dr Reddy's Laboratories got approval from the Drugs Contro...
Soil health card initiative improved productivity: Agriculture ministryThe consumption of nitrogen fertilisers has decreased while usage of phosphorus potash and micronutrients has increased, the ministry said.