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NEW DELHI: Vaccine manufacturers must have protection against all lawsuits by vaccinations especially during a pandemic, the executive director of the Serum Institute of India (SII) Adar Poonawalla has said. He also said that vaccine makers will propose this to the government, while speaking on a virtual panel about the …

NEW DELHI: The CEO of vaccine maker Serum Institute of India, Adar Poonawalla, said Thursday that the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine should be available to healthcare workers and seniors around February 2021 and in April for the general public, and will have a maximum price of Rs 1,000 for two doses …

NEW DELHI: The CEO of vaccine maker Serum Institute of India, Adar Poonawalla, said Thursday that the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine should be available to healthcare workers and seniors around February 2021 and in April for the general public, and will have a maximum price of Rs 1,000 for two doses …

Many countries around the world are witnessing a resurgence in their daily coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and deaths. Cities like New York in the US, Turin in Italy, and London in the UK have been put under strict lockdowns due to the possibility of a second wave of the outbreak. In …

NEW YORK: World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his steadfast commitment to Covax and for making Covid-19 vaccines a global public good. “I thanked Prime Minister @narendramodi for his steadfast commitment to COVAX and for making # COVID19 vaccines …

The Serum Institute of India (SII) is preparing 1 billion doses of five different vaccines against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) worldwide before the end of 2021-22, according to a report. Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the world’s largest vaccine maker by volume, said his company plans to launch at least one …

TAIPEI: China, which has four coronavirus vaccine candidates in stage 3 clinical trials, said on Friday that it will join the Covid-19 vaccine alliance known as COVAX. The country signed an agreement with GAVI, the co-leader of the alliance, on Thursday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. China …

The COVAX facility aims to deliver at least 2 billion doses of vaccines by the end of 2021 (Representational) Beijing: China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the country has formally joined the global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, making it the largest economy to date to pledge its …

China is participating in a vaccination effort backed by the World Health Organization, stepping in to fill a gap in global health leadership created by the Trump administration. Beijing on Thursday joined the $ 18 billion Covax initiative that aims to give low-income countries the same access to vaccines as …

In the last 24 hours, India recorded 70,496 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) and 964 deaths, bringing the overall count and death toll to 6,906,151 and 106,490, respectively. The country’s active cases, which have been below a million for 17 consecutive days, fell further below 900,000 on Friday, while more …