NEW DELHI: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has criticized the Indian government for protests by farmers, called on Prime Minister Modi to request Covid vaccines. In a tweet late at night, Modi said: “I was happy to get a call from my friend @JustinTrudeau. He assured him that India …
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NEW DELHI: India kicked off the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation campaign on Saturday with thousands of frontline workers and doctors receiving their first vaccinations on Day 1. With injections of the Covishield and Covaxin vaccines administered in medical centers across India, citizens breathed a collective sigh of relief in hopes …
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NEW DELHI: In a pandemic situation, emergency use of vaccinations is considered based on safety and immunogenicity data while phase three clinical trial It is underway, the head of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), Balram Bhargava, said on Tuesday. Explaining the process followed to grant approval to the …
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NEW DELHI: As India prepares for the world’s largest vaccination program, India’s Controller General of Drugs (DCGI) on Sunday quelled rumors surrounding Covid-19 vaccines regarding impotence, dismissing those speculations as “complete nonsense”. “We will never approve anything if there is the slightest concern for safety. Vaccines are 110% safe. Some …
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SRINAGAR: Covid-19 vaccines do not belong to any political party, but to humanity, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Saturday, hours after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav rated vaccines against it. coronavirus to be launched in the country as a “BJP vaccine.” . On Twitter, the former Prime Minister …
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China was ahead in the global race to develop coronavirus vaccinations with the most of the candidates in the last phase of trials at the beginning of the year and its first approval of a home injection for the general public came Thursday, but without detailed efficacy data. Below is …
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VG Somani, Comptroller General of Drugs of India (DCGI), in a webinar on Thursday indicated that India was close to approving a COVID-19 vaccine. Mr. Somani was participating in a webinar, organized by the Department of Biotechnology, in which vaccine experts, infectious disease experts and representatives of companies developing vaccines …
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NEW DELHI: The new UK variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is 70% more transmissible, has been detected in India with at least seven returnees from the country, including a 2-year-old girl, who tested positive for the mutant variant, the government said Tuesday even as it assured the vaccines under …
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Six passengers traveling on Air India’s London-Delhi flight tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival, a senior government official said on December 22. Read also: Coronavirus, December 22 updates The flight landed around 11.30pm on December 21. “Five COVID-positive passengers were found at the Delhi airport. A passenger, who took a …
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NEW DELHI: India may start vaccinating people against Covid-19 in January and the government’s first priority has been the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, said Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. “Personally, I think it can be in January at any stage or any week, there may be a time …
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