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WHO assures support for Nigeria on COVID-19 vaccines
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Lagos [Nigeria], February 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organization (WHO) has assured Nigeria that it will support the country to procure, distribute and administer COVID-19 vaccines.
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COVID-19 pandemic helped India to scale up its healthcare infrastructure,
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI): While India has been successful in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, it also turned out to be a huge opportunity for the country to scale up its healthcare infrastructure, said Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Balram Bhar
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SA receives first batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses from India, expects more
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], February 2 (ANI/Xinhua): South Africa has secured millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses from different suppliers and expects more to come, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his televised address on Monday night.
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Dubai launches initiative to speed up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Dubai [UAE], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The UAE emirate of Dubai on Sunday announced creating a "logistics alliance" to speed up supplies of two billion doses of the vaccine against the coronavirus disease via the COVAX initiative.
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Bolivia to get about 1 million COVID-19 vaccine shots in February
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
La Paz [Bolivia], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Bolivia expects to get nearly one million doses of coronavirus vaccines next month, Bolivian President Luis Arce has announced.
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COVID-19 cases declining, 27 districts have less than 15 cases: Tamil Nad
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 30 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan on Saturday said that there has been a decline in new coronavirus cases in the state and 27 districts have reported less than 15 cases.
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Covax firms urge DCGI to change fact sheet on blood thinners: ICMR chief
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): India's drug regulatory body has received requests from both Pune based Serum Institute of India and Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech to make necessary changes in the vaccine fact sheet to allow people using blood thinners to get inoculated against Covid-19
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Covaxin effective on UK virus strain of COVID-19: ICMR
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], 27 January (ANI): An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study on Covaxin shows a comparable neutralization activity of the vaccinated individuals against UK-variant strain.
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Iran to receive first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX soon
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], January 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Iran is soon expected to receive its first batch of foreign vaccines against the coronavirus from the World Health Organization-led COVID-19 vaccine procurement and distribution initiative, the COVAX Facility, the state-run IRNA news agency reported o
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WHO inks deal for delivery of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in poor countries
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 23 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday announced that it had reached an agreement with Pfizer/BioNTech for 40 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine delivering to poor countries under its COVAX initiative next month.
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COVID-19 jab: 123 AEFI cases, over 15L healthcare workers take vaccination
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 23 (ANI): As many as 123 healthcare workers suffered Adverse Effects Following Immunisation (AEFI), out of 15 lakh COVID vaccination conducted pan India till Saturday, the Union Health Ministry said.
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COVAXIN shows high safety, immunogenicity during phase 1 clinical trial: L
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): In a remarkable finding, India's indigenous Covid-19 vaccine--COVAXIN developed by the Bharat Biotech and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has shown high safety and immunogenicity during the phase 1 clinical trial, according to the findings of th
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