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  Kerala: 84-year-old woman inoculated with both Covid vaccine doses within 30 minutes

  India | September 18, 2021 12:24 IST

  She said after that incident, health officials called her a few times to find out how she has been, and she told them she was perfectly fine. 

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  Goa's vaccine wastage prevention model will help country: PM during interaction with health workers

  India | September 18, 2021 11:25 IST

  Goa managed to vaccinate 17,000-odd people till 7 pm on Friday against a target of 25,000 doses to mark the 71st birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials said.

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  WHO's emergency use approval to Covaxin delayed till October 5

  India | September 18, 2021 6:51 IST

  Bharat Biotech on Friday said it has submitted all the data to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for Emergency Use Listing (EUL) of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin and is awaiting feedback from the UN Public Health Agency.

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  Sinovac launches clinical trial of vaccine on children, teenagers in South Africa

  World | September 12, 2021 8:01 IST

  South Africa starts phase three Covid-19 clinical trials investigating the efficacy of the Sinovac vaccine in children on Friday. 

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  CDC finds unvaccinated 11 times more likely to die of COVID

  World | September 11, 2021 8:56 IST

  It isn’t clear if the changes seen over time are because immunity is waning in people first vaccinated many months ago, that the vaccine isn’t quite as strong against delta -- or that much of the country abandoned masks and other precautions just as delta started spreading.

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  US: Federal mandate takes vaccine decision off employers’ hands

  World | September 10, 2021 13:02 IST

  President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday that will require employers with more than 100 workers to mandate immunizations or offer weekly testing.

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  Govt develops COVID-19 vaccine tracker to give vaccination-related information

  India | September 09, 2021 21:16 IST

  Speaking at a briefing of the Union health ministry, ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said the vaccine tracker has been developed by synergizing data from the COWIN portal, National COVID-19 testing database, and COVID-19 India portal.  

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  WHO urges to halt booster shots for rest of the year

  India | September 08, 2021 23:47 IST

  WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said he was “appalled” after hearing comments Tuesday from a top association of pharmaceutical manufacturers that vaccine supplies are high enough to allow for both booster shots for people in well-supplied countries and first jabs in poorer countries that face shortages. He said that's already been the case.

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  Dr Reddy's starts supply of Sputnik V first doses

  India | September 07, 2021 21:57 IST

  The development came following the announcement that Panacea Biotec supplied the first shipment of the second component of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine manufactured by it for sale in India.

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  Over 70 crore vaccine COVID doses administered in India so far: Govt

  India | September 07, 2021 16:17 IST

  It took 19 more days to go past the 60-crore mark and took only 13 days to reach 70 crore from 60 crore, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Twitter.

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  COVID: India administers over 1 crore vaccine doses, thrice in last 11 days

  India | September 06, 2021 21:09 IST

  A total of 1,05,76,911 doses were administered on Monday, officials said, adding that the figure is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for the day by late night.  

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  COVID-19 vaccine stock in Delhi to last for eight days: Bulletin

  India | September 06, 2021 20:10 IST

  As of Monday morning, 1,61,450 doses of Covaxin and 12,46,420 doses of Covishield are left in stock. The bulletin noted that 5,43,550 doses of Covishield were added to the stock on Sunday.  

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  Pfizer to offer small Covid vaccine packaging to cut wastage of doses

  World | September 06, 2021 19:36 IST

  Currently, Pfizer's mRNA Covid vaccine is available in two packages: one with 450 doses and another with 1,170. But the vaccine's cold storage requirement limits where and for how long they can be kept, making it challenging for smaller facilities to store high quantities of the vaccine without wasting doses.

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  Allow second Covishield dose 4 weeks after first for those who want it early: Kerala HC to Centre

  India | September 06, 2021 18:14 IST

  Justice P B Suresh Kumar said that if the central and state governments can permit persons traveling abroad to choose between early and better protection from COVID-19, there is no reason why the same privilege cannot be extended to those here who want early protection in connection with their employment or education.

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  India creating record, administering 1.25 crore Covid vaccines daily: PM Modi

  India | September 06, 2021 16:59 IST

  Addressing the people of Himachal Pradesh virtually on achieving the target of administering the first dose of Covid vaccine to all eligible people, Modi said as many as 70 crore vaccines have been administered so far in the country.

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  Mega vaccination drive in Lucknow today; 1 lakh inoculations on target

  India | September 06, 2021 9:57 IST

  The special vaccination camps organised at religious places of various faiths in the city have given a major boost to the vaccination drive against Covid-19.

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  How to identify fake Covid vaccines? Here's your cheatsheet

  India | September 05, 2021 23:27 IST

  As of now, the Serum Institute of India's Covishield, Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and Russian vaccine Sputnik V are being administered to eligible beneficiaries under the ongoing COVID-19 inoculation drive in the country.

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  Delhi needs 1.5 crore Covid vaccine doses to fully inoculate eligible population: Atishi

  India | September 05, 2021 8:21 IST

  Atishi on Saturday said that the Delhi government needs 1.5 crore COVID vaccine doses to fully inoculate the whole eligible population in the national capital.

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  80% adult population in Mumbai inoculated with at least 1 dose of Covid vaccine: BMC

  India | September 05, 2021 7:05 IST

  Meanwhile, the BMC also claimed that Mumbai has become the first district in the country to administer more than 1 crore Covid-19 vaccines.

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  Over 68-crore Covid vaccine doses administered in India so far: Govt

  India | September 04, 2021 20:58 IST

  According to the 7 pm provisional report, more than 62.25 lakh (62, 25,922) doses were administered on Saturday.