India needs to expand local vaccine manufacturing, research: GTRIThe Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) urged India to bolster its local vaccine production and research to enhance vaccine safety. The...
11 Nov, 2024, 07.14 PM IST
‘Doctors knew Covid vaccine’s side-effects killed my daughter. But they didn’t tell us’Dr Snehal Lunawat was the first case in which the AEFI committee accepted there was a direct correlation between vaccination and death. Man...
30 May, 2024, 02.14 PM IST
Disclosed all information on Covishield’s side effects in 2021, says SIIThe Serum Institute of India (SII) has stated that the safety of vaccines remains "paramount" and that all information about the side effec...
09 May, 2024, 10.38 AM IST
We trust Indian industry, Bharat Biotech has been submitting data regularly, very quickly: WHO official on Covaxin EULBharat Biotech's Covaxin and AstraZeneca and Oxford University's Covishield are the two widely used vaccines in India.
28 Oct, 2021, 09.48 PM IST
188 crore Covid vaccine doses required to inoculate 18-plus population: GovtIn a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on whether the present Covid vaccine manufacturing firms have the capacity to produce t...
20 Jul, 2021, 03.39 PM IST
Vaccination: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw says pvt hospitals should be allowed a little higher service charge for off-site camps"It is good to have a simple two-pricing structure, one for the government and another for the private sector. The centralised procurement ...
08 Jun, 2021, 01.43 PM IST
Karnataka Congress offers to get vaccine using MLA fundsWe appeal to the Centre and the state governments to give us permission for direct procurement, since rules only allow the government, hosp...
15 May, 2021, 07.53 AM IST
Make COVID-19 vaccination affordable, accessible through Jan Aushadi scheme, says IMAVaccination for the coronavirus infection should also be the priority of the government as vaccination not only enhances individual safety ...
23 Apr, 2021, 04.31 PM IST
Private companies free to buy vaccines at market price for employeesAlong with the decision to make all adults eligible for vaccination from May 1, the government has allowed private companies, hospital chai...
22 Apr, 2021, 08.50 AM IST
Principal Scientific Adviser gives an inside view of the emerging vaccine situation in India"Typically, vaccines and drugs sold in India are sold at prices substantially lower, especially when there is a bulk market. So I would not...
20 Apr, 2021, 03.28 PM IST
Approvals for J&J jabs soon, pricing to be reasonable: Vaccine Task Force co-chair K Vijay RaghavanGlobal vaccine maker Johnson and Johnson has applied to India’s drug regulator seeking permission to conduct phase 3 clinical trial of its ...
20 Apr, 2021, 03.24 PM IST
Centre should ensure adequate availability of vaccines: Ashok GehlotThe Centre announced on Monday that everyone above 18 years of age will be eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 from May 1 and allow...
20 Apr, 2021, 11.04 AM IST
India cites global shortage of Covid-19 vaccines as consensus eludes its TRIPS waiver proposalNew Delhi termed developed countries’ argument on the sufficiency of such licensing arrangements for ramping up manufacturing capacities “w...
19 Jan, 2021, 11.29 PM IST
Experts question govt vaccine purchase price, say it's higherThe government procurement price of Rs 200 per dose for Covishield, manufactured by Serum Institute, is higher than what the EU is said to ...
14 Jan, 2021, 11.01 AM IST
Bharat Biotech hits outs at critics, says carried out '200 pc honest' trials of corona vaccineNow that vaccine is being politicized, I want to state very clearly that none of my family members is associated with any political party, ...
04 Jan, 2021, 09.33 PM IST
Bharat Biotech claims its Covid 19 vaccine Covaxin will work against UK strainHyderabad-based Bharat Biotech said on Monday that its vaccine is efficient against the mutant strain of novel coronavirus found in the UK ...
04 Jan, 2021, 07.58 PM IST
Telangana bats for Indian vaccine industry, wants Centre to clear bottlenecksKT Rama Rao, in a letter to the union health minister Harsh Vardhan, on Thursday appealed to constitute a high-level empowered committee wi...
06 Aug, 2020, 08.50 PM IST