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UAE President directs allocation of funding for urgent polio vaccination c
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Delivered in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UNRWA, the two-round campaign will provide over 640,000 Gazan children under the age of 10 with two doses of the polio vaccine, in an effort to stop the spread of the virus and prevent a wider regional outbreak.
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DGCI approves market authorisation of Serum Institute's Covovax as booster
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This vaccine can be taken as a booster dose by people who have already taken two doses of Covishield or Covaxin.
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DCGI recommends Covovax as heterologous booster dose
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The Central drug regulatory authority Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has recommended market authorisation for Serum Institute of India's Covid vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for those who have already taken two doses of Covishield or Covaxin.
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Vaccines significantly lower risk of long-term effects of COVID-19
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Ramat Gan [Israel], September 8 (ANI): A new study demonstrates that receiving at least two doses of Pfizer vaccinations significantly lowers the majority of the long-term symptoms people observed months after getting COVID-19.
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DCGI gives emergency use authorisation to India's first mRNA COVID-19 vacc
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved two doses of Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals' mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for restricted use in emergency situations for beneficiaries aged above 18 years age group.
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DCGI approves Corbevax as first heterologous COVID-19 booster shot for adu
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 4 (ANI): Biological E. Limited, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical and vaccines company, on Saturday, announced that its Corbevax COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) as a heterologous COVID-19 booster dose for
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Health expert calls for reducing booster dose gap from 9 to 6 months
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): Director of Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS), Bengaluru, Dr Rakesh Mishra has called for reducing the gap for booster doses from nine to five-six months after two-doses of covid-19 vaccination, saying "it can be a good approach".
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NTAGI recommends reducing gap between two doses of Covishield: Sources
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) on Sunday recommended the Union Ministry of Health to reduce the COVID-19 vaccine Covishield's duration of the second dose to somewhere between 8 to 16 weeks after the first dose in view of the o
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Three doses of COVID vaccine better than two? Study suggests so!
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
California [US], February 14 (ANI): The majority of the vaccines available for COVID-19 have two doses. People are said to become more capable of resisting the virus after the second dose. But, a recent Kaiser Permanente study, found that one month after a third dose, the effectiveness of th
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COVID-19 precautionary dose will be same vaccine administered previously:
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): The precautionary COVID-19 vaccine dose, which is to be given to healthcare and frontline workers, and those over 60 years of age with co-morbidities from January 10, will be the same vaccine as administered previously in the first two doses, said Dr VK Pa
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COVID vaccine booster dose a must, says expert
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI): Amid the emergence of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, a Delhi-based doctor said that a booster dose of COVID vaccine is a must as the protection cover of two doses declines over three to six months.
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Omicron: Effective strategy to ensure India's adult population is fully va
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar(Odisha) [India], December 15 (ANI): Amid concerns over the Omicron variant of COVID-19, NITI Aayog Member-Health, Dr VK Paul on Tuesday said that the effective strategy is to ensure that the adult population of India is vaccinated with the two doses of vaccines.
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