Vaccination site at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) Jambo Covid Hospital in Mumbai on Thursday morning (Express photo by Pradip Das) The lack of transparency about the vaccination schedule in these private hospitals makes it difficult for older people and people with comorbidities in the priority group to schedule appointments, said …
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NEW DELHI: The government announced Wednesday that people over 60 and those over 45 with comorbidities will be able to receive Covid-19 vaccines starting March 1. At a press conference, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the vaccines will be free at some 10,000 government centers throughout the country. The …
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Rising Sun Holdings, controlled by Adar Poonawalla, will acquire a 60 percent stake in non-bank finance company (NBFC) Magma Fincorp by underwriting a prime issue of Rs 3,456 crore. After the capital infusion, Magma and its subsidiaries will be renamed and renamed Poonawalla Finance. Poonawalla Finance is an existing finance …
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Written by Benjamin Mueller and Rebecca Robbins The good news came first. The European Union authorized a third vaccine. Then the bad news. Regulators in country after country suggested restricting it to the youngest until further testing was done. The decisions ushered in a delicate new phase of vaccination campaigns, …
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NEW DELHI: India’s vaccine diplomacy moved forward with the shipment of 1 lakh anti-Covid injections to Oman, a close partner in the Gulf, after having supplied the jabs to immediate neighbors. By the end of this week, India plans to send more than 5 lakhs of doses to Afghanistan. India …
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India’s Foreign Ministry is working on a plan to supply more than 160 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to 60 countries and to Unicef by the end of March, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday. The vaccine supplies include around 10 million doses in giveaways, which in the …
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The world’s largest vaccination campaign against the new coronavirus will begin on Saturday when India begins vaccinating three million million of its front-line workers. In the first phase, two indigenous vaccines, Covaxin and Covishield, will be administered to the priority groups. More than one crore and 5.27 lakh people have …
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The Indian government said on Tuesday that it has received several requests from neighboring counties for the supply of Covid-19 vaccines made in India. Following the request, the government announced that it will supply COVID-19 vaccines under a grant to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles starting Wednesday. The …
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India will administer injections to three million frontline workers in phase one. There are 3,006 session sites across the country, where every 100 recipients will receive either of the two indigenous vaccines from India, Covaxin or Covishield. Each beneficiary must receive two doses of the same vaccine, 28 days apart. …
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Six states carried out roughly 17,000 more vaccines against the coronavirus on Sunday, the Union Health Ministry said, setting the total number of immunizations at 224,301 since the process began Saturday morning. According to officials, among the 207,229 who received doses on the first day, three people, or 0.0014%, had …
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