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COVID-19: Covaxin 1st Indian vax to get peer-reviewed data

January 22, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit Mumbai: Covaxin, India’s first indigenous vaccine against the global pandemic of COVID-19, has shown enhanced immune response without any serious side-effects in the volunteers enrolled for the Phase 1 trials, a study in the prestigious medical publication, The Lancet Infectious Disease Journal, has said. Covaxin, developed by Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) in […]

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Pharma Hub India: More than 90 countries contacted India for Coronavirus vaccine

January 22, 2021 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The negligible side-effects showing Indian coronavirus vaccine is in heavy demand in the 92 countries including the European and South American Countries. India started its coronavirus vaccination drive on January 16. India is already sending its domestically developed vaccines to several neighbouring countries including Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar. A few days back Prime […]

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Three Million Vaccines Sent to Bangladesh, Nepal: China Stands up for Pakistan

January 21, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 21: With India sending three million vaccine doses to Bangladesh and Nepal on Thursday, China has offered five lakh doses of a Coronavirus vaccine to its ally Pakistan as a show of bonding between the two nations. Two Indian flights carried two million doses of Covishield to Dhaka and one million doses […]

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Five Killed in Fire in Serum Institute but No Impact on Vaccine Production: CEO

January 21, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 21: At least five persons including a woman were killed in a fire that broke out in the Manjari facility of the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune, the world’s biggest vaccine unit, which lately has occupied national and international focus because of manufacturing Covid vaccine “Covishield.” The SII chief […]

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SAARC Diary: Indian Vaccines Reach Bhutan

January 21, 2021 Editor In Chief

THIMPHU, Jan 21: At a ceremony held at Paro airport on Wednesday, Ruchira Kamboj, Indian Ambassador to Bhutan, handed over the vaccine consignment to the Bhutanese health minister Dechen Wangmo in the presence of Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering. The entire consignment of ‘Made in India’ vaccines was brought into Bhutan by an Indian AN32 […]

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PM, CMs and Other Political Leaders above 50 to Take Vaccine in Second Phase

January 21, 2021 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 21: With the mass immunization drive failing to pick up the enthusiasm it was expected to considering the gloom the people faced in the Corona pandemic, the prime minister Narendra Modi and other top political leaders are in the line to come forward to take the home-made vaccines to end […]

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India Began Exporting Covid vaccines to Bhutan, Maldives, More to Follow

January 20, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 20: India’s “vaccine friendship” with the neighbouring countries began on Wednesday with the first shipment of “Covishield” dispatched to Bhutan and the Maldives with more to follow. The external affairs ministry sources said further shipments by India would be made for Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles in the coming days. The Oxford […]

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India to Ship Vaccines to Neighbours from Wednesday

January 19, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 19: India’s immediate neighbours will start getting Covid-19 vaccine vials from Wednesday for emergency use of the frontline workers and elderly persons under the government’s “neighbourhood first” policy and maintaining cordial relations with the SAARC Countries. Official sources said millions of doses of “Covishield” would start flowing out of India to six […]

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India has Identified a “Nasal Vaccine,” Trial is On: Government

January 19, 2021 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 19: Even as injectable vaccines against Coronavirus are still to receive universal acceptance from the frontline workers in the country, the central government on Tuesday claimed that it had identified a “nasal vaccine” which if passed the tests would become a game changer in the vaccine world. “A nasal vaccine candidate has […]

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COVID-19: ‘Please don’t take Covaxin if you have…’ warns Bharat Biotech

January 19, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit Mumbai: Two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the world’s largest vaccination drive against COVID-19 on January 16, India’s indigenous coronavirus vaccine-maker Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) has warned the people not to get the Covaxin shot if they have a set of medical conditions so as to avoid health complications. More […]