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Lankan cabinet approves purchase of 10 million COVID-19 vaccines from Indi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], February 23 (ANI): Sri Lankan cabinet has approved the purchase of 10 million doses of 'Made in India' AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), local media reported.
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Nepal receives another shipment of 1 million Made-in-India COVID-19 vaccin
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Kathmandu [Nepal], February 21 (ANI): Nepal received another shipment of one million doses of Made-in-India coronavirus vaccines on Sunday.
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AstraZeneca to produce coronavirus vaccine doses in Japan for 40 million p
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Tokyo [Japan], February 20 (ANI/Sputnik): The AstraZeneca company is going to produce in Japan doses of the coronavirus vaccine enough for 40 million people, the executive director of the Japanese department of the firm said.
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WHO gives AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 vaccines emergency use approval
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Geneva [Switzerland], February 16 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday (local time) gave emergency use approval (EUA) to two versions of AstraZeneca-Oxford-developed COVID-19 vaccines, allowing these shots to be rolled out globally through COVAX. The vaccines are being produc
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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will be tested in kids as young as 6
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London [UK], February 13 (ANI): University researchers plan to start testing AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine on children as young as six in Britain on Saturday.
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Mexico to receive 1 million doses of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine, says Pr
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Mexico City [Mexico], February 11 (ANI): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at a news conference on Wednesday informed that the country would receive around a million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine sent from India in the early hours of Sunday.
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Benefits of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine outweigh risks: WHO
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Moscow [Russia], February 10 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) said on Wednesday that the benefits of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine outweigh the potential risks.
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Brazil sees 1,350 COVID-19 deaths, over 50,000 cases in a day
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Sao Paulo [Brazil], February 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil on Tuesday said it registered 1,350 deaths due to the novel coronavirus disease in the past 24 hours, raising the country's death toll to 233,520.
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Healthians frontline workers and staff in Delhi NCR get vaccinated for COV
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New Delhi [India], February 9 (ANI/NewsVoir): The COVID-19 crisis has unleashed a global health and humanitarian crisis like no other claiming lakhs of lives in India. It has pushed healthcare providers to the wall, adversely affecting their operations and service delivery.
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Greece receives first batch of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
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Athens [Greece], February 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Greece has received the first batch of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and will begin vaccinations on February 15, the country's Health Ministry Secretary General for Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous said at a ministry briefing.
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Johnson confident in COVID-19 vaccines as South Africa pauses AstraZeneca
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London [UK], February 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The UK government is "very confident" about the effectiveness of all the COVID-19 vaccines that the country has approved for use so far, despite South Africa's decision to pause the rollout of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine over fears that it
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South African opposition slams govt vaccination drive amid halted AstraZen
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Johannesburg [South Africa], February 8 (ANI/Sputnik): South Africa's political opposition has slammed the country's government for its handling of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out after Johannesburg halted its plans to use the AstraZeneca vaccine, a Sputnik correspondent reported Monday.
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