Russia's COVID-19 single dose vaccine Sputnik Light gets SEC nod for Phase III trialsAccording to the recommendations of the SEC meeting held last month, Dr Reddy's, which has tied up with Russian Direct Investment Fund to m...
15 Sep, 2021, 08.37 PM IST
Pregnant women in India now eligible for Covid vaccinationThe decision empowers pregnant women to make an informed choice on taking the Covid vaccination, the health ministry said, adding these wom...
02 Jul, 2021, 07.05 PM IST
UK completes Covid-19 vaccination target of people over 50 ahead of scheduleUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a statement said: "We have now passed another hugely significant milestone in our vaccine program by off...
13 Apr, 2021, 09.08 AM IST
Plea in HC to relax age criteria for COVID-19 vaccination, allow privatelabs to participateThe petition, filed by a final year law student of Delhi University, also sought direction to the authorities to formulate a policy to prov...
08 Apr, 2021, 06.30 PM IST
Australia probes if blood clot case linked to AstraZeneca vaccineAustralia launched mass vaccinations for its 25 million people in February, with most expected to receive the University of Oxford/AstraZen...
02 Apr, 2021, 12.52 PM IST
France's Sanofi to manufacture vaccines developed by rival Pfizer-BioNTechThe Germany-based BioNTech will initially produce the vaccines at Sanofi facilities in Frankfurt, starting in the summer, according to a Sa...
27 Jan, 2021, 02.19 PM IST
Private sector willing to partner with govt for accelerating COVID vaccine administration: FICCIFICCI has submitted a detailed plan outlining what support private sector, including healthcare, can provide, through the FICCI-EY Strategy...
07 Jan, 2021, 03.07 PM IST
Germany set to extend hard lockdown as daily deaths mountGermany's new infections remain at more than twice the level of 50 per 100,000 residents over seven days, which the government wants to rea...
05 Jan, 2021, 04.24 PM IST
Govt starts contest for strengthening digital network platform for COVID-19 vaccine distributionThe contest will be jointly run by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Electronics and IT, a statement said.
23 Dec, 2020, 07.41 PM IST
US FDA probing 'about five' allergic reactions to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccineThe FDA official said that one component of the vaccine, polyethylene glycol, may be the cause of the allergic reactions seen in both the U...
19 Dec, 2020, 05.59 PM IST
US begins Covid-19 vaccinations as its death toll passes 300,000The start of the desperately awaited vaccine program coincided with several European countries announcing new lockdowns amid spiraling infe...
15 Dec, 2020, 12.37 PM IST
Number of Covid-19 vaccines growing but volume of doses remains concern, says WHO AdviserA handful of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 have reported efficacy levels of greater than 90 per cent in clinical trials, and Aylward ...
12 Dec, 2020, 09.43 AM IST
GSK, Sanofi say COVID-19 shot won't be ready until late 2021The companies said early trials showed the vaccine produced an "insufficient" immune response in older adults, demonstrating the need to re...
11 Dec, 2020, 05.24 PM IST
UK investigates possible allergic reactions to COVID-19 shotUK regulators say people who have a "significant history'' of allergic reactions shouldn't receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vacc...
09 Dec, 2020, 04.47 PM IST
Chinese province to give COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable groups, general public in 2021: Local mediaThe southwestern province could also begin inoculating the general public after the Lunar New Year in mid-February, said the Sichuan Daily,...
08 Dec, 2020, 06.27 PM IST
Should millennials and Gen Z get the coronavirus vaccine first?The U.K.’s National Vaccine Taskforce spread its bets early on, putting in orders for 340 million vaccine doses among six different vaccine...
11 Nov, 2020, 02.29 PM IST
Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million childrenUNICEF reported a significant delay in planned vaccine deliveries due to lockdown measures and a dramatic reduction in the number of availa...
22 May, 2020, 09.09 PM IST