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

Over 110 million doses of this to about 60 countries will be met through the AstraZeneca (AZ)-Serum Institute of India partnership

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\"The UK has ordered 100 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, of which 10 million doses will come from the Serum Institute of India,\" a UK government spokesperson told Reuters

India has vaccinated more than 10.5 million health and front-line workers since beginning its immunisation campaign on January 16

Located in the city of Pune in Maharashtra, the SII is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume

Serum delivered 600,000 doses of Covishield vaccines from Pune to Accra in Ghana. The vaccines arrived on a flight from Mumbai, via Dubai, where the flight also collected a shipment of syringes from a Gavi-funded stockpile at UNICEF's regional supply hub

Biological E has tied up with vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. And, it plans to start the Phase 3 trial of the candidate licensed from Baylor College next week

Poonawalla appealed to countries and governments to be patient and assured that the coronavirus vaccine will be available to the rest of the world who are purchasing the AstraZeneca-Oxford doses from India

In this meeting, the NTAGI will review the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recommendation to extend the gap between two doses of the AstraZeneca- Oxford vaccine from 4 weeks to 8-12 weeks

Serum Institute has applied for registration with Health Canada with the help of Toronto-based Verity Pharmaceuticals, Adar Poonawalla said

Prior to widespread circulation of the more contagious variant, the vaccine was showing efficacy of around 75%, researchers said

Coronavirus vaccine: India will get the maximum share of 97,164,000 doses (97.1 million), in addition to the direct orders placed by the Indian government with SII and Bharat Biotech

The Union Health Ministry has claimed that India has become the fastest country in the world to reach the 4 million vaccination mark in 18 days

Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey was responding to a question on whether the government has finalised a pricing and supply agreement with the Serum Institute of India Limited for COVID-19 vaccines

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

Serum expected a decision on an Indian trial of Novavax's vaccine soon, Chief Executive Adar Poonawalla said, hours after the US company reported the efficacy data

Fire at Serum Institute: 5 dead, company to pay Rs 25 lakh compensation to families Serum Institute of India (SII) Chairman & Managing Director Cyrus Poonawalla on Thursday expressed sorrow on the loss of lives due to the fire that broke out at its under-construction facility in Pune. He said that the company will be offering a compensation of Rs 25 lakh to each of the families of the deceased, in addition to the mandated amount as per the norms. SII is manufacturing the Covishield vacc...

Details on the size of the deal or the price per dose COVAX would pay were not immediately clear, but the sources said the allotment would likely be relatively small

SII Chairman & Managing Director Cyrus Poonawalla said that the company will be offering a compensation of Rs 25 lakh to each of the families of the deceased, in addition to the mandated amount as per the norms