Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 24 (ANI): Covaxin, the indigenous vaccine against COVID-19 will be available for state governments at Rs 600 per dose and private hospitals at Rs 1,200 per dose, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech announced on Saturday.
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that the breakthrough infection rate of COVID-19 after taking the either of the two Made in India vaccines - Covaxin and Covishield vaccines - "is a very small number".
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 21 (ANI): Covaxin, India's indigenous vaccine against COVID-19 demonstrated "overall interim clinical efficacy" of 78 per cent and 100 per cent efficacy against "severe COVID-19 disease" in Phase-III trials, informed Bharat Biotech and Indian Council of M
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): Bollywood actors Farhan Akhtar and Sonu Sood on Wednesday questioned why the Serum Institute of India (SII) was not providing its Covishield vaccine at the same price to the centre and the states.
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): Indigenously-developed Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, made by Bharat Biotech, neutralises multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively neutralises the double mutant strain as well, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Wednesday.
New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has approved a total of Rs 4,567.50 crore as advance payment to Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech to ramp up vaccine production against coronavirus, sources told ANI.
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Monday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking adequate supply of vaccines to Tamil Nadu, adding the state has received 7.41 lakh doses of Covishield and 1.75 lakh doses of Covaxin tas against 54 lakh doses of v
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): The current production capacity of indigenously developed Covaxin vaccine will be doubled by May-June 2021 and then increased nearly 6-7 fold by July-August 2021, the government announced on Friday as the country is witnessing a record surge in COVID-19 inf
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 16 (ANI): COVID-19 vaccination in-charge in Odisha, Bijay Panigrahi on Friday informed that the state has shut some vaccination centres due to shortage of COVID-19 vaccines.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 16 (ANI): Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allowing Maharashtra-government owned Haffkine Institute to manufacture Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, on the basis of transfer of technology.
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], April 15 (ANI): 320 doses of Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN went missing from the cold storage of Hari Bux Kanwatia Government Hospital in Jaipur on Wednesday. An FIR has been registered in the Shastri Nagar police station as vaccines went missing.
New Delhi [India], April 13 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday accepted that Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus has got the emergency use authorisation, making it the third vaccine apart from Covishield and Covaxin to be used in India.