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No changes as of now in gap between Covishield doses, say govt sources
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 12 (ANI): Amid calls to reduce the gap between two doses of Serum Institute of India's COVID-19 vaccine Covishield based on the new findings by Public Health England, the Central government will not take the decision to change the dosage interval immediately, said
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Mumbai students travelling abroad for studies express happiness over prior
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 11 (ANI): Mumbai students, who are scheduled to leave for foreign universities to pursue their studies, have expressed their happiness over the state government's decision of prioritising their COVID-19 vaccination and the Centre's guideline to reduce the m
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Priyanka Chaturvedi urges Maharashtra govt to reduce gap between COVID vac
Updated : 4 years, 11 months 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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CoWIN portal reconfigured to show 12-16 weeks gap between Covishield doses
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): CoWIN, the digital portal for COVID vaccination registration, has been reconfigured to reflect the extension of interval between two doses of Covishield to 12-16 weeks, informed the Government on Sunday.
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Extended gap between 2 doses of Covishield reasonable approach, India must
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], May 14 (ANI): Dramatically ramping up COVID-19 vaccination drive is key to ending the crisis in India and extending the gap between two doses of Covishield is a "reasonable approach," White House chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci told ANI in an exclusive interview on
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Centre extends gap between two doses of COVISHIELD from 6-8 weeks to 12-16
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry on Thursday accepted the recommendation of the COVID working group to extend the gap between the first and second doses of COVISHIELD vaccine to 12-16 weeks. The present gap between the two doses of the COVISHIELD vaccine is 6-8 wee
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Govt Panel recommends 12-16 week gap between Covishield doses, no change f
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) on Thursday recommended an increase in the gap between two doses of Serum Institute of India's COVISHIELD to 12-16 weeks.
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Organ transplant recipients remain vulnerable to COVID-19 even after secon
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- confers some protection for people who have received solid organ transplants, it's still not enough to enable them to dispense with COVID
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Delhi hospital nurse, one more person apprehended for black marketing of R
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): Delhi Police on Monday arrested a nurse and another person for their alleged role in selling two doses of Remdesivir injection at Rs 1.16 lakhs.
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Covid negative report or final vaccination certificate mandatory for entry
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 9 (ANI): The new guidelines issued by the Odisha government on Friday in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases, make it mandatory for people coming to the state to produce either a negative RT-PCR test report obtained within 72 hours of entry or final vaccinat
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Increase interval between two doses of Covishield to 4-8 weeks: Centres to
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 22 (ANI): In view of the emerging scientific evidence, the interval between two doses of a specific COVID-19 vaccine that is Covishield, has been revisited by the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) and subsequently by National Expert Group on V
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Study sheds light on recombinant vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in mice
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 10 (ANI): Researchers have found that modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), a smallpox vaccine, can be further modified in a recombinant form to express the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that injection of one or two doses of the recombinant MVA protected tr
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