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PM Modi reviews India's COVID-19 vaccination strategy
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a meeting to review the country's vaccination strategy in which important issues related to progress of COVID-19 vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement were discussed.
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Engineered immune cells, new hope for HIV vaccine: Research
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 20 (ANI): Scientists at Scripps Research have moved closer to attaining a triumph over HIV research with a new vaccine approach that would anticipate engineered immune cells from the patient's body.
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Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine "well tolerated in older adults"
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 19 (ANI): Major drug marker Serum of Institute of India (SII) on Thursday said that the coronavirus vaccine, developed by teams at the University of Oxford, has been shown to trigger a robust immune response in healthy adults aged 56-69 and those over 70 years
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Pfizer, BioNTech offer Brazil COVID-19 vaccination plan for 2021
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], November 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German laboratory BioNTech have proposed a plan for the Brazilian government on vaccination against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the first half of 2021, the companies said in a statement.
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Trump must make coordinated COVID-19 vaccine plan or 'more people may die'
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 17 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday (local time) asked President Donald Trump-led administration to make co-ordinated plans for nationwide coronavirus vaccination or more people will die due to the infection.
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BioNTech says no infomation on vaccination start in Germany
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], November 14 (ANI/Sputnik): German BioNTech biopharmaceutical company that had teamed up with US Pfizer for the development of a vaccine against Covid-19, told Sputnik on Friday that it had not yet received the information as to when vaccination will start in Germany
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Worldwide Measles surge to 23-year high in 2019, killing over 200,000: UNI
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Deaths from the childhood disease measles last year increased 50 pe rcent from 2016 levels, with this year's coronavirus pandemic threatening another spike in cases by curtailing global vaccination programs, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) war
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Centre plans to introduce COVID-19 vaccination drive on lines of poll boot
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 6 (ANI): The Central government, in its blueprint for the country's biggest vaccination drive for COVID-19, has planned that the immunisation program will not only be limited to healthcare facilities, but it will also be extended to schools on the lines of polling
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Yogi Adityanath launches TB vaccination campaign, aims to eradicate diseas
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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 1 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday launched a special campaign for Tuberculosis (TB) vaccination, for the search for active TB patients and golden card distribution under the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Arogya Yojana in Lucknow.
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Prioritisation has to be done on criteria for COVID-19 vaccination, says
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Amid claims of various state governments that it would provide free Covid-19 vaccinations, the Union government's expert group on vaccines on Tuesday said that they should wait for a clearer picture to emerge on vaccine prioritisation.
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Ontario should vaccinate newborns for hepatitis B, study suggests
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ontario [Canada], October 26 (ANI): Not all pregnant women are universally screened for hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Ontario, even though this screening is recommended, and the majority of those who test positive do not receive follow-up testing or interventions, leading to infections of newbo
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Priority population groups being finalised for vaccination against COVID-1
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): The central government's National Expert Committee on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 is finalizing priority population groups for vaccination against coronavirus once the vaccine is ready.
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