UK scientists find higher risk of brain clots from COVID-19 compared with vaccinesA study of 500,000 COVID-19 patients found CVST had occurred at a rate of 39 people out of a million following infection, researchers said....
15 Apr, 2021, 05.22 PM IST
Sri Lanka temporarily suspends COVID-19 jabs due to delay in securing vaccines from SII: MinisterSri Lanka launched its inoculation programme in late January when India gifted 500,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca. Till Thursday 913,219 p...
02 Apr, 2021, 11.53 AM IST
Oxford study indicates AstraZeneca effective against Brazil variant, source saysThe data indicates that the vaccine will not need to be modified in order to protect against the variant, which is believed to have origina...
05 Mar, 2021, 08.29 PM IST
UK to receive 10 million AstraZeneca doses from Serum InstituteSII, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, is mass producing the AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, for d...
04 Mar, 2021, 12.18 AM IST
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine being tweaked to fight South Africa virus variantDevelopers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the...
08 Feb, 2021, 08.50 AM IST
Britain approves AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccineRegulatory endorsement is a welcome boost for AstraZeneca and the Oxford team, which have been accused of a lack of clarity about the resul...
30 Dec, 2020, 01.21 PM IST
AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine has a 'winning formula': Chief executive Pascal SoriotThe UK government announced on December 23 that the developers of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine had submitted their data to the Medicines ...
28 Dec, 2020, 01.07 PM IST
Serum Institute of India ready for Covid-19 vaccine rollout: OfficialSII has already manufactured around 50 million doses of its Covid vaccine called Covishield, which is based on the technology from drugmake...
24 Dec, 2020, 12.03 AM IST
Oxford/AstraZeneca in ‘mix-match' COVID-19 vaccine trial with Russia's SputnikThe two sets of experts are to join forces to explore if a combination of the two jabs, both using a benign virus called adenovirus, could ...
12 Dec, 2020, 06.04 PM IST
Oxford-Astra COVID-19 vaccine shows average 70.4% efficacy in pooled studyAstraZeneca Chief Executive Officer Pascal Soriot said the drugmaker had begun submitting data to regulatory authorities around the world t...
08 Dec, 2020, 09.48 PM IST
No reason to worry about Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, says UK minister"I don't think there is any reason to be unduly concerned," British housing minister Robert Jenrick told Sky News. "We have now written to ...
27 Nov, 2020, 01.23 PM IST
Will resume COVID-19 vaccine trials after DCGI nod: Serum InstitutePharma giant AstraZeneca on Saturday said that clinical trials for the AstraZeneca Oxford coronavirus vaccine, AZD1222, have resumed in the...
12 Sep, 2020, 10.08 PM IST
Oxford, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trials resume days after pauseThe study had been previously stopped in July for several days after a participant who got the vaccine developed neurological symptoms; it ...
12 Sep, 2020, 09.01 PM IST
Serum Institute of India officially halts the trial of Astrazeneca-Oxford vaccine in India"We are reviewing the situation and pausing India trials till AstraZeneca restarts the trials. We are following DCGI's instructions and wil...
11 Sep, 2020, 06.54 AM IST
India trials of COVID-19 vaccine is going on: Serum InstituteLast month, the Drug Controller General of India had granted permission to the Pune-based SII to conduct Phase-II and -III human clinical t...
10 Sep, 2020, 12.08 PM IST
Serum Institute of India seeks DCGI permission for phase 2/3 clinical trials of Oxford's COVID 'vaccine'The sources told that the Pune-based drug firm submitted its application to the DCGI on Friday seeking permission for conducting the trials...
25 Jul, 2020, 04.22 PM IST
Good news on Oxford, AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine could come on Thursday: ReportHEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-OXFORD-VACCINE-Positive news on Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine could come Thursday: report
15 Jul, 2020, 09.14 PM IST