New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a three-city visit on Saturday to “personally review the development and manufacturing process of the (coronavirus) vaccine,” the Prime Minister’s Office said on Friday. He will visit the Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad and the Serum Institute …
Read More »Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin Phase 3 Trial Begins at AIIMS Delhi
New Delhi: The phase three human clinical trial of Covaxin, a candidate for the indigenously developed coronavirus vaccine, began at AIIMS here Thursday with Dr. MV Padma Srivastava, head of the main institute’s Neuroscience Center, and three others. volunteers who received the first dose. ‘Covaxin’ is being developed by Bharat …
Read More »Covaxin Phase-3 trial begins at AIIMS, key updates
The Covaxin coronavirus vaccine, made in India, began its phase three human clinical trial at AIIMS in New Delhi on Thursday with Dr. MV Padma Srivastava, head of the main institute’s Neuroscience Center, and three other volunteers who received the first dose. AIIMS’s Dr. Srivastava was the first to receive …
Read More »Will follow scientific advice on timing and choice of vaccine: PM Modi | India News
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would follow scientific advice in deciding which Covid-19 vaccine to use, stressing that “safety is as important as speed,” even as he said it was a national commitment to provide the vaccinations to all citizens. When asked during a …
Read More »At least 3 years for all of India to be vaccinated; healthy adults may not be given virus vaccines before the 22nd
Even if a vaccine against coronavirus is available early next year, healthy adults, without any underlying disease, are unlikely to receive it before 2022, according to a new book ‘Till We Win: India’s Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic’. The book is co-authored by AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, Public Policy and …
Read More »India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine ‘at least 60% effective’, higher than WHO criteria: Bharat Biotech
In a statement that has generated optimism and curiosity in the medical fraternity, Bharat Biotech said Sunday that its COVID-19 The ‘Covaxin’ vaccine will be at least 60% effective, according to trial data. The President of Quality Operations of Bharat Biotech Sai D Prasad said that the World Health Organization …
Read More »Bharat Biotech had an adverse event during the phase 1 trial of Covaxin in August
NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech International Ltd had an adverse event during the phase 1 trial in August, when a patient was hospitalized after receiving a dose of the covid-19 Covaxin vaccine. But the matter was not made public by either the company or the regulator, the Central Medicines Standards Control …
Read More »Population group prioritization, storage facility in focus, PM Modi reviews India’s plan for Covid-19 vaccination
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting on Friday to review India’s vaccination strategy in which issues such as prioritization of population groups and the technological platform for the deployment of the vaccine for the coronavirus were discussed. Modi tweeted that the meeting discussed important topics related to the progress …
Read More »Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij Becomes First Volunteer for Covaxin Covid Vaccine Trials
Anil Vij received a test dose of a coronavirus vaccine today at a hospital in Ambala New Delhi: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij received a test dose of a coronavirus vaccine today at a hospital in the state’s Ambala cantonment. The third phase trial of Covaxin from Bharat Biotech started …
Read More »Health Minister Anil Vij receives first injection of covaxin when Bharat Biotech begins phase 3 trials in Haryana
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij receives a test dose of Covaxin, Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, at Ambala Cantt Civil Hospital on Friday. (Twitter / @ ANI) The 67-year-old senior BJP leader was dosed under the supervision of a team of doctors from PGI Rohtak and the Department of Health. …
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