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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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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NEW DELHI: China defended the construction of a village that, according to reports based on satellite images released by the US imaging firm Planet Labs, is allegedly located in Arunachal Pradesh, calling it a question of sovereignty and insisting that it never recognized the “illegally established” Indian state. The Chinese …
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Five workers were charred to death in a fire that broke out on the fifth floor of a building under construction of the main Serum Institute of India (SII) of vaccine manufacturing in the Manjari area of Pune on Thursday afternoon. The five killed were contract workers: two from Uttar …
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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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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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Adar Poonawalla is seen cutting a cake in the photo. New Delhi: Serum Institute of India Executive Director Natasha Poonawalla finally had a day to celebrate after months of hard work for her husband Adar’s birthday. Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute today celebrated his 40th birthday with his family, …
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Three temperature-controlled trucks deployed the vaccines from the Serum Institute facility in Pune. New Delhi: The first batch of Covishield, the Serum Institute of India’s coronavirus vaccine, left Pune early this morning, four days before the national inoculation campaign against COVID-19. Amid tight security, three temperature-controlled trucks left the Serum …
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The central government has signed a contract with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to supply 11 million doses of Covishield, the Indian variant of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the Pune-based firm said on Monday. Doses of the vaccine could begin shipping Monday night, said a source …
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Within 24 hours of last week, an expert committee from the national drug regulator changed its decision on whether Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 candidate vaccine could be recommended for approval without evidence of its efficacy in humans, the minutes of the committee meetings held on January 1 and 2 show. The …
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