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No shortage of vaccine in country, confident to inoculate whole population
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): Underlining that there is no shortage of COVID-19 vaccine in the country, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General Dr Balram Bhargava on Tuesday expressed confidence that India's entire population will be vaccinated by December 2021.
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TRIPS waiver will facilitate wider access to technologies needed for COVID
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New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The proposal by South Africa and India for a temporary global waiver on patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines will facilitate wider access to technologies needed to produce vaccines, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor on Tuesday.
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Mixing of COVID-19 vaccines not protocol yet, clarifies Centre
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New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The Government of India on Tuesday clarified that mixing of COVID-19 vaccines is not protocol yet and asserted there is no change in the schedule of two-dose vaccines Covishield and Covaxin.
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Haryana CM receives second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
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Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], June 1 (ANI): The Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar has taken his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.
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Odisha writes to Centre to intervene in vaccine procurement, says will bea
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Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 1 (ANI): Odisha on Tuesday wrote to the Centre proposing country-level procurement of global COVID-19 vaccines by the union government stating that it would be "faster and economical". The Odisha government said it will bear the cost of the vaccines for the
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COVID-19: Biggest-ever Sputnik V consignment lands in Hyderabad
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 1 (ANI): The biggest import consignment of COVID-19 vaccines in India till date involving 56.6 tonnes of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines received in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
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Over 30 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Mexico
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Mexico City [Mexico], June 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Mexico has administered more than 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses out of 39.8 million that were purchased from different companies, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell Ramirez said.
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Priyanka Chaturvedi urges Maharashtra govt to reduce gap between COVID vac
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 1 (ANI): Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Tuesday urged Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope to reduce the gap between the two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, as students travelling overseas have apprehensions about receiving the second dose on time.
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Study finds new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
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Canberra [Australia], June 1 (ANI): A study has identified the immune response associated with protection from COVID-19. The discovery is likely to help reduce the time it takes to develop new vaccines.
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Centre's COVID vaccine procurement policy against federalism, says Jharkha
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Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], June 1 (ANI): Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said the procurement of COVID vaccines by States on their own during the ongoing pandemic "stands against the principle of cooperative federalism" and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide free
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North Korea slams countries for storing excessive stock of COVID-19 vaccin
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Pyongyang [North Korea], June 1 (ANI): North Korea has slammed some countries for storing an excessive stock of COVID-19 vaccines while others suffer from a lack of supplies.
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COVID vaccines wastage reported in Rajasthan's Bundi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bundi (Rajasthan) [India], June 1 (ANI): It's a precarious situation when vaccine is the only weapon against the deadly Covid-19 and the state governments are floating global tenders to procure COVID-19 vaccine, there have been several cases where wastage of vaccine doses has been reported.
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