Covax signs deal for 500 mn Moderna Covid vaccine dosesThe doses, to come on stream from October at the earliest, will broaden out the portfolio of vaccines in the Covax scheme, which has so far...
03 May, 2021, 05.01 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
'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
UN thanks India for offering 200,000 COVID vaccine doses for UN PeacekeepersTwo vaccines--Covaxin and Covishield-- have received Emergency Use Authorisation (EAU) after going through established safety and immunogen...
21 Feb, 2021, 09.18 AM IST
GAVI inks pact with Serum Institute of India, Novavax for Covid-19 vaccine supplyThe Novavax vaccine has shown 90% efficacy in phase 3 clinical trials in the UK that enrolled more than 15,000 participants aged 18-84 year...
20 Feb, 2021, 07.22 AM IST
WHO approves AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency useA WHO statement said it had approved the vaccine as produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India.
15 Feb, 2021, 11.42 PM IST
Unicef launches Covid-19 vaccine market dashboardThe dashboard provides a regularly updated overview of the global research and development pipeline, the projected production capacity, pub...
22 Dec, 2020, 12.52 PM 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
WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024The World Health Organization's COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle income countries around th...
16 Dec, 2020, 11.38 PM IST
India's likely to get access to Moderna's coronavirus vaccine via COVAX facilitySince Moderna received funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which is a part of COVAX, India may get dos...
17 Nov, 2020, 01.46 PM IST
India has gained rights for vaccines to cover 50% of population: StudyMost of the rich countries have already purchased 3.8 billion doses of yet-to-be-approved Covid-19 vaccines, with an additional 5 billion d...
03 Nov, 2020, 12.03 AM IST
Vaccine allocation key as supplies will run low for some years: Poonam Khetrapal Singh"WHO is working on an allocation policy for Covid-19 vaccines and has proposed that the goal of vaccination should be to minimise the socie...
19 Oct, 2020, 10.43 AM IST
China joins COVAX alliance for global distribution of its COVID-19 vaccines“This is an important step China has taken to uphold the concept of a shared community of health for all and to honour its commitment to tu...
09 Oct, 2020, 11.09 AM IST
WHO says India in talks to join 'COVAX' global vaccine schemeThe WHO and the GAVI vaccine alliance are leading the COVAX facility, aimed at helping buy and distribute vaccination shots against the nov...
07 Sep, 2020, 11.40 PM IST
World Health Organization sweetens terms to join struggling global COVAX vaccine facilityThe change appears aimed at convincing governments which have negotiated their own bilateral deals securing experimental vaccines to also s...
28 Aug, 2020, 05.40 PM IST
Signing up for Covax will give India access to many vaccines: Soumya SwaminathanBilateral deals are not a way to optimise the situation, World Health Organization’s chief scientist told, adding: “WHO is discouraging cou...
03 Aug, 2020, 07.04 AM IST
India part of international alliance Gavi's new coronavirus global vaccine access driveThe COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) forms part of the COVAX Facility, a mechanism hosted by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, designed to g...
31 Jul, 2020, 10.25 PM IST