There is no increased risk of blood clotting post vaccination with Covaxin and Covishield so far, ruled top government committee. The top committee came to the finding post analyzing more than 400 adverse reactions encountered during ongoing vaccination drive in India.  Dr NK Arora, executive director of the INCLEN Trust and an advisor to the ...

With 1 million COVID-19 shots in just 6 days, India’s vaccination drive becomes the world’s fastest The Indian government has vaccinated nearly 16 lakh people against COVID-19 since the launch of its mass inoculation drive on January 16. According to the Health Ministry, authorities have administered approximately 10 lakh vaccine shots in just six days, ...

India started its vaccination drive on January 16 and a week later, the country has administered more than one million vaccine shots to people against Covid-19 virus. With this achievement, India has become the fastest country to cross the mark of a million doses among all the countries that have started the vaccination drive.  The ...

On Thursday, fire broke out on the fifth floor of an under-construction building in Pune based Serum Institute of India killing five people. Fire soon spread to the top three floors of the six-story building inside the leading vaccine manufacturer’s campus.  The people killed in fire were contractual labourers. Two of them were from Uttar ...

India has already rolled out vaccines on January 16 for its population, who are receiving one of the two indigenous vaccines – Covishield or Covaxin. Now in an attempt to do its bit for vaccine diplomacy and equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccine, India is supplying the first lot of its vaccines to neighboring and key ...

Covid-19 vaccination drive: January 16 will mark commencement of one of the biggest vaccination drives in India. The Covid-19 vaccination drive will be launched across India at around 3000 sites, with the number scheduled to increase to up to 5000 by end of this month. This number is further expected to ramp up by March ...

Indian Vaccine: The Covaxin vaccine is getting embroiled in domestic skirmish even before its delivery schedules have been put into place. The bone of contention is the fact that the vaccine has been granted emergency approval even before the human trials were completed.  There is communal disharmony over the contents of the vaccine. The main ...

Oxford vaccine: India has moved one step closer to getting its Covid-19 vaccine rollout approved as the expert panel has cleared use of Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine being developed by Pune based Serum Institute of India. On Friday, the expert panel at DCGI (Drugs Controller General of India) gave its recommendation for EUA (emergency use ...

Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine: After UK approved Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, India is likely to have its vaccine soon Britain’s approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use has given new hopes to India’s efforts to fight the rising cases in the country. As per media reports, Indian regulators are expected to hold further meetings in ...

FAQs on vaccination drive: As India prepares for the one of the world’s largest vaccination drive against Coronavirus infection early next year, Union Health Ministry has answered some common questions regarding the same. Government has set an aim to vaccinate approximately 30 crore people on priority in early phase of vaccination. Furthermore, multiple vaccine candidates ...