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"Both Kerala and West Bengal are endemic for Nipah Virus:" Dr Narendra Kum
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
President of AIIMS Bilaspur, and Chairman of India's Covid-19 Working Group at the National Technical Advisory Group, Dr Narendra Kumar Arora, speaking on the presence of Nipah Virus in India, mentioned that both states Kerala and West Bengal are endemic to the virus.
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Union Government to encourage HPV vaccination for cervical cancer through
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The National Technical Advisory Group for Immunisation (NTAGI) has recommended introduction of The quadrivalent Human Papilloma Virus (qHPV) vaccine in the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) with a one-time catch-up for 9-14 year-old adolescent girls followed with routine introduction
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NTAGI holds meeting on Covovax inclusion as heterologous booster on CoWin
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation conducted a meeting on February 8 regarding the inclusion of Covid19 vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults on the CoWin portal to boost uptake of the doses, sources said on Thursday.
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NTAGI to discuss inclusion of Covovax in CoWIN portal as heterologous boos
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) is likely to meet soon to discuss inclusion of Covid vaccine Covovax on the CoWIN portal as a heterologous booster dose for adults to boost uptake of booster doses, said official sources.
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WHO chief asks China for rapid reliable data on COVID deaths
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This comes as WHO held a high-level meeting with counterparts in China last week to discuss the surge in cases and hospitalisations. Subsequently, WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution and the COVID-19 clinical management expert network groups both met with Chinese
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Omicron subvariants BA.5.2, BF.7 responsible for latest COVID outbreak in
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In a statement, WHO said that the Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) held a meeting with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday and said, "The China CDC analysis showed a predominance of Omicron lineages BA.5.2 and BF.7 among locally acquired in
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COVID-19: China infection surge on agenda at WHO coronavirus meeting
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to UN News, the 30-strong expert group was formed in June 2020 to advise the UN health agency and Member States on coronavirus mutations and variants. The group's last meeting was in October.
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Second Covid booster dose not required: Govt sources
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"No discussion has been started even in the Immunisation panel National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) regarding the second booster," said a separate official source to ANI.
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HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer could be manufactured in India by A
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) CERVAVAC vaccine, for the prevention of cervical cancer, is expected to arrive in India by April at the one-tenth of the cost of internationally branded vaccines in the country, said Dr NK Arora, chairman of the Covid working group, National Technical Adviso
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COVID very much around us, rapid change in Omicron sublineage circulating:
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): Dr NK Arora, Chairman of the COVID working group, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), on Wednesday said that COVID-19 is still around us and quite a significant transmission of viruses is going on.
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India's first vaccine against cervical cancer to be launched tomorrow
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): The Serum Institute of India (SII) and the Department of Biotechnology(DBT) are set to launch India's first indigenously developed Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against Cervical Cancer on September 1, official sources told ANI.
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Rollout of booster dose discussed in NTAGI right from Nov 2021, says Dr NK
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) Chairman Dr NK Arora refuted the media reports that there were lapses in permission for the rollout of precautionary doses and said that issue of the rollout of precaution doses or additional doses
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