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COVID-19: Kent strain a threat, may “sweep the world”, says expert

February 12, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing mass vaccination against coronavirus pandemic in many countries, a British expert has warned that the recent variant first found in the British area of Kent is a threat and is likely to “sweep the world, in all probability.” The variant could remain effective for the next 10 years. […]

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SII to Export 24 Million Vaccine Doses to 25 Counties

February 10, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 10: The central government has given clearance to the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) to export 23.75 million Covid-19 vaccines to 25 countries on commercial basis in February, more than twice the 10.5 million doses exported in January. The countries in the SII”s list for vaccine export included Saudi Arabia, Brazil, […]

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“Coronavirus Was Not Created in Chinese Lab:” WHO

February 9, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 9: Exonerating China of the charge of artificially creating the Coronavirus to ruin the world economy, the World Health Organisation has come to the conclusion that the pandemic virus was unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, the WHO […]

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India’s Vaccine Gift Reach Afghanistan

February 7, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 7: Even as Afghanistan is waiting for the approval from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for emergency use of Corona vaccine, some five lakh doses of “Covishield” dispatched by India reached Kabul on Sunday. “Made in India vaccines reach Afghanistan. (We) stand with our friends, always,” External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said […]

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Pfizer Withdraws Application for Emergency Use of Its Vaccine in India

February 5, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 5: Pfizer for the time being has decided to withdraw its application for emergency use approval of its Corona vaccine in India after the country’s drug regulator sought more data and information on its vaccine being manufactured along with the German biotechnology company BioNTech. Pfizer was the first company to apply for […]

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22 Countries have Sought Vaccines from India: Health Minister

February 5, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 5: India has so far exported Corona vaccines to 15 countries in the world, the health minister Harsh Vardhan told the Lok Sabha on Friday. Relying to a question, Vardhan said 22 countries have sought India’s vaccines. To some nations India had given vaccines in the form of grant. He said while […]

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Vaccine Second Dose Round to Begin from February 13

February 4, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 4: Administering the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines to the healthcare workers who have taken the first dose will be started from February 13, NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul said on Thursday. Addressing a media conference, he said, “The second dose of vaccine will be administered to healthcare workers from 13th […]

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SII Delays Vaccine Export to Bangladesh for Private Sale

February 4, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 4: The Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has told the Bangladesh pharmaceutical company Beximco to wait for the supply of additional doses of Corona vaccine it had ordered for private sale. Beximco last week received 5 million of the 30 million doses it had ordered from SII for Bangladesh’s immunisation programme […]

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COVID-19: Even the 1st AZ vaccine dose cuts spread by 76%, says study

February 3, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid reports of multiple strains of the global pandemic virus, COVID-19, emerging in different countries, a study on Wednesday revealed that even the first of the two-dose vaccine developed jointly by the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca can potentially cut the transmission by around 76 percent. This reduction can […]

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Delhi moving towards ‘herd immunity’ against covid-19: Sero Survey

February 2, 2021 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: A latest survey on coronavirus situation in the national capital shows that people of Delhi are moving towards ‘herd immunity’. A Health Minister of Delhi Satendar Jain on Tuesday cited Sero Survey and said that “About 56 of every 100 people in Delhi have developed antibodies against COVID-19 and the city is moving […]