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January 07, 2023 01:42 PM IST Vaccination following exposure to the Delta or Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 is likely to affect the quality, quantity and duration of immune responses.
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January 03, 2023 01:49 PM IST The government has sent a consignment list for supplying 80 lakh doses of Covishield to different consignees to Serum Institute of India, which will start the supply soon, an official said.
- December 28, 2022 05:44 PM IST
According to an official source, Prakash Kumar Singh, Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at the Serum Institute, has written to the Health Ministry offering the doses worth Rs 410 crore free of cost.
- September 03, 2022 01:03 PM IST
Petitioner Dilip Lunwat, the petitioner, said his daughter, a medical student, had severe headaches and vomiting after taking the vaccine in 2021. She was taken to a hospital where doctors found bleeding in her brain.
- September 02, 2022 04:39 PM IST
Petitioner Dilip Lunwat has also made Microsoft founder Bill Gates whose foundation had partnered with the SII, the Union government, Maharashtra government and Drug Controller of India respondents to the plea.
- August 10, 2022 07:34 PM IST
This is for the first time that a booster dose that is different from the one used for primary vaccination against Covid has been allowed in the country.
- August 10, 2022 11:37 AM IST
This is for the first time that a booster dose that is different from the one used for primary vaccination against Covid has been allowed in the country.
- June 20, 2022 06:10 PM IST
This is a remarkable feat, considering that all the vaccine doses administered in the country are made locally
- June 06, 2022 01:30 PM IST
The pharma regulator has approved the first mix-and-match of COVID-19 vaccines in India, but the final say-so lies with the government
- April 23, 2022 09:05 AM IST
The Serum Institute has produced more than one billion doses of Covishield -- its version of the AstraZeneca jab -- and is a major supplier to the Covax global inoculation programme for poorer countries.
- April 16, 2022 01:34 PM IST
The heat-tolerant COVID-19 vaccine candidate can be stored at 37 degrees Celsius for four weeks and at 100 degrees Celsius for up to 90 minutes.
- April 12, 2022 07:32 PM IST
New Delhi, Apr 12 Vaccine major Serum Institute of India (SII) has appealed to the government to reduce the gap between the second and booster dose..
- April 10, 2022 02:43 PM IST
The inventories at the private CVCs would be verified by SII representatives and the claim would then be processed on the basis of their approval.
- April 10, 2022 07:30 AM IST
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- April 09, 2022 05:20 PM IST
While prices for the Covishield doses were brought down from Rs 600 a shot, Covaxin was slashed from Rs 1,200.
- April 08, 2022 05:09 PM IST
"In 10-14 days, Covovax can be available on CoWin at about Rs 900 plus tax," the SII chief executive said.
- March 23, 2022 03:17 PM IST
Private healthcare providers struggling to use up their stocks of Covishield and Covaxin shots are showing no enthusiasm for the Corbevax vaccination of children.
- March 08, 2022 03:54 PM IST
As the efficacy trials of the intranasal COVID-19 vaccine from Bharat Biotech begin this week, there are hopes that if successful, such a vaccine may finally bring the pandemic to an end
- February 18, 2022 04:20 PM IST
Unvaccinated tennis player Novak Djokovic has said that though he is not against COVID-19 vaccines, he will skip tournaments if compelled to take the jab.
- February 08, 2022 01:29 PM IST
As most vaccine beneficiaries prefer to line up at government hospitals, private hospitals now want the government to buy the doses. Of the nearly 175 crore vaccine doses administered, less than 5 percent have been in private hospitals
- February 03, 2022 10:01 AM IST
A sum of Rs 35,000 crore was originally proposed to be spent on COVID vaccination as part of 2021-22 budget which was later revised to Rs 39,000 crore. Response to an RTI query has revealed that the government has spent majority of the amount
- January 31, 2022 05:55 PM IST
Private hospitals were slated to be an important partner in the COVID19 vaccination drive launched in January, 2021 but barring a few initial months, their role in the massive campaign has been negligible as high prices of vaccines at private centres has kept people away.
- January 28, 2022 07:29 AM IST
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- January 27, 2022 04:11 PM IST
The Drugs Controller General of India’s (DCGI) approval came after the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) on COVID-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on January 19 recommended granting regular market approval to the Serum Institute of India’s (SII’s) Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for use in adult population subject to certain conditions.
- January 26, 2022 03:58 PM IST
According to official sources, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has been directed to start working towards capping the price to make the vaccines affordable.
