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Rajasthan to float global tender to buy 1 cr COVID vaccine doses
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], May 13 (ANI): The Rajasthan state cabinet on Wednesday gave the nod to float a global tender to purchase 1 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Centre should have brought out global tenders for one-stop COVID vaccine p
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Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], May 12 (ANI): Demanding free vaccination for every citizen of the country, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said it would be better if the Central government, instead of the state governments, would have brought out global tenders for the procure
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Vaccination drive halted at centers of Nagpur due to shortage of COVID-19
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Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], May 12 (ANI): The vaccination drive was suspended at some centres of Nagpur on Wednesday due to the shortage of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Delhi CM writes PM Modi, requests to allow other companies to manufacture
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting to allow other companies with "capabilities", to manufacture the two COVID-19 vaccines--Covaxin and Covishield--being already produced in India.
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High, upper-middle countries with 53 pc population received 83 pc world's
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Geneva [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): Highlighting the inequality in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu on Monday informed that High and upper-middle countries represent 53 per cent of the world's population but have received 83 per cent of the world's v
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WHO strongly supports TRIPS waiver, not time to worry about patents, profi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Monday (local time) said that the global health body strongly believes that Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver to COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade O
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Mumbai civic body gets nod to explore global procurement of COVID vaccines
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 11 (ANI): Maharashtra Minister Aditya Thackeray on Monday said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will explore possibilities of global procurement of COVID vaccines to meet the inoculation demand.
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Odisha Cabinet approves global tender to procure Covid-19 vaccines
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 10 (ANI): In a major decision, the Odisha cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday approved a proposal to issue a global tender for procurement of Covid-19 vaccines from several companies.
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Japan Prime Minister urges govt to fast-track domestic COVID-19 vaccine ap
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Tokyo [Japan], May 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga urged the government on Monday to accelerate the approval process for homemade COVID-19 vaccines.
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Nepal reports 8,777 new COVID-19 cases, caseload reaches 394,667
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 9 (ANI): Nepal on Sunday reported 8,777 cases of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide caseload to 3,94,667.
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COVID-19: Pope Francis backs vaccine patents waiver
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Rome [Italy], May 9 (ANI): Pope Francis has backed growing calls for a patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines in a video message for a public concert on Saturday.
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Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh receive fresh stock of COVID-19 vaccines
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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 8 (ANI): As states are conducting large-scale vaccination drives against coronavirus, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have received fresh stocks of COVID-19 vaccines.
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