This is something very special and I see it myself because I'm on weekly teleconferences with our colleagues in India, you make a recommendation, and within days it's done and not only done, but it's done well and with incredible rigor and thought and creativity, Dr Hotez said

Biden administration recently decided to enforce Defence Production Act, which allowed it to boost vaccine production by blocking export of raw material supplies to other countries

Government data shows that only 10% of about 12.6 million people immunised in India have taken the COVAXIN shot, which was found to be 81% effective in an interim analysis of the late-stage trial, its developer Bharat Biotech said

Digital media norms to be administered by Centre, not states The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry on Wednesday issued memorandum to states and union territories saying that the new rules for digital news publishers and over-the-top (OTT) platforms are to be administered by the Centre, not the states. The government had notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Codes) Rules, 2021 on February 25. Defence equipment sales to India sho...

Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has said citizens can get vaccinated according to their convenience

While its hospitals in Ludhiana and Mohali have got permission to vaccinate 100 and 200 persons, respectively, in a day, its Shalimar Bagh hospital in Delhi has received 1,000 doses for the first week

A major fire engulfed the fourth and fifth floors of an under-construction building at Serum Institute's 100-acre Manjari campus in the SEZ area in Pune

Going forward, the company's vaccine strategy includes blocking capacity with airlines for international freight forwarding, finalising warehousing plans keeping in mind the specific needs of Covid-19 vaccine storage

Godrej Appliances is currently deploying vaccine refrigerators that maintain a precise temperature of 2 to 8 degrees Celsius to store the highly temperature-sensitive Covaxin and CoviShield vaccines

The mission was aimed at giving a chance to people who were stranded overseas due to pandemic restrictions to come back to the country. Nearly all airlines such as Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet, GoAir, Vistara and others have flown under this mission

Rakesh Tikait announced that the farmers have given time to the government till October 2 to repeal the laws, after that, they will do further planning

The study published in 'PrePrints with the The Lancet' reveals that administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has 'substantially reduced' transmission of the virus

COVID-19 vaccination drive: The cost of around Rs 2,200 crore will come from the corpus helmed by the Prime Minister and comprising ex-officio members like the defence minister, the home minister and the finance minister

The finance minister added that the government will also provide Rs 35,000 crore for coronavirus vaccination in 2021-22 and is committed to providing further support to eliminate COVID-19

Budget 2021: In order to replenish its coffers, the government is likely to announce a coronavirus cess. Preliminary talks on revenue increasing measures have been held

Last year in September, Novavax had announced its deal with Serum Institute in order to produce 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines

The vaccine wastage can be largely attributed to not enough volunteers turning up after the vaccine vials were opened, which need to be utilised in up to four hours

The sera collected from Covaxin recepients (showing 99.6 percent seroconversion following vaccination) neutralised the UK variants, ICMR said

COVID-19 vaccine: About 19 vaccines are going to be globally available in the coming few weeks and months. Of this, about nine have already got emergency use authorisation

Both COVID-19 vaccines being administered in India's extensive vaccination programme - Serum-Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin - have a very short shelf life of just six months