Covid Vaccine
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Kerala: 84-year-old woman inoculated with both Covid vaccine doses within 30 minutes
India | Sep 18, 2021, 12:24 PM ISTShe 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 | Sep 18, 2021, 11:25 AM ISTGoa 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 | Sep 18, 2021, 06:51 AM ISTBharat 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 | Sep 12, 2021, 08:01 AM ISTSouth 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 | Sep 11, 2021, 08:56 AM ISTIt 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 | Sep 10, 2021, 01:02 PM ISTPresident 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 | Sep 09, 2021, 09:16 PM ISTSpeaking 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 | Sep 08, 2021, 11:47 PM ISTWHO 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 | Sep 07, 2021, 09:57 PM ISTThe 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 | Sep 07, 2021, 04:17 PM ISTIt 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 | Sep 06, 2021, 09:09 PM ISTA 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 | Sep 06, 2021, 08:10 PM ISTAs 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 | Sep 06, 2021, 07:36 PM ISTCurrently, 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 | Sep 06, 2021, 06:14 PM ISTJustice 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 | Sep 06, 2021, 04:59 PM ISTAddressing 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 | Sep 06, 2021, 09:57 AM ISTThe 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 | Sep 05, 2021, 11:27 PM ISTAs 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 | Sep 05, 2021, 08:21 AM ISTAtishi 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 | Sep 05, 2021, 07:05 AM ISTMeanwhile, 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 | Sep 04, 2021, 08:58 PM ISTAccording to the 7 pm provisional report, more than 62.25 lakh (62, 25,922) doses were administered on Saturday.