The company has already stockpiled about 50 million doses of the vaccine. The Serum Institute of India (SII) said on Sunday that it is ready to launch the Covishield vaccine in the country in the coming weeks after receiving approval from India’s drug regulator. The Pune-based vaccine specialist has started …
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Minutes after two vaccines for Covid-19, Covishield from the Pune-based Serum Institute and Covaxin from Bharat Biotech, received emergency approval from the country’s drug regulator on Sunday, Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain has said that healthcare and frontline workers will be vaccinated in the first phase. Talking to the news …
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As all the states and territories in the union conducted vaccine tests, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday that India is perhaps the only country that is preparing with four vaccines against Covid-19. The UK has approved the Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccine. The United States has approved the emergency …
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Among the Center’s elaborate plan to distribute the vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), are the country’s air and road transport network and the sites where the vaccine will be administered to eligible people in the first phase. On Friday, the subject matter expert committee (SEC) of the Central Medicines …
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After the Indian arm of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc, the Pune-based Serum Institute of India, on Sunday became the first indigenous company to apply for an emergency use authorization for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine in the country. The Pune-based company has collaborated with Great Britain’s Oxford University and pharmaceutical …
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PM Modi will visit three cities to review the progress of the vaccine (Representative Image) Covid 19 Vaccine Progress in India Highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today went on a three-city tour to review the progress of Covid-19 vaccine development in India. Prime Minister Modi visited Ahmedabad, Pune and Hyderabad, …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 28, 2020 9:07:15 pm Serum Institue reservers work on a bioreactor to manufacture a possible COVID-19 vaccine (NYT) Serum Institute of India (SII), based in Pune, which has an agreement with AstraZeneca to manufacture the Oxford University vaccine, said Wednesday …
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Bharat Biotech plans to conduct the third phase of trials with more than 20,000 volunteers in 12-14 states in India. Bharat Biotech’s own coronavirus vaccine from India, which was in the second stage of human clinical trials, has finally received the go-ahead for the last phase. The highly anticipated candidate …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 27, 2020 6:11:00 pm Health workers wearing protective suits during the collection of swabs for the COVID-19 test inside a movie theater in Kolkata. One day after questioning the government about his Covid-19 vaccine production and distribution plans in the …
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The stages of vaccine development were also discussed along with the need for district health action plans, in addition to the country’s overall Coronavirus strategy. Central government officials, including Prime Minister PK Mishra’s top secretary, had discussed various plans regarding the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine across the country on …
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