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Sri Lanka puts Chinese Covid-19 vaccine on hold
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], February 26 (ANI): Sri Lanka has put Chinese Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine on hold and will use India-manufactured Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine to inoculate 14 million people, a government spokesperson has said.
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Queen Elizabeth II urges public to get vaccinated against COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], February 26 (ANI): Queen Elizabeth II has urged people to get COVID-19 vaccinations while adding that her own jab "didn't hurt at all."
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Vaccinating oldest against COVID-19 saves both most lives, most years of l
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 26 (ANI): A recent study by Joshua R. Goldstein, Thomas Cassidy, and Kenneth W. Wachter states that vaccinating the oldest against COVID-19 saves both the most lives and the most years of life.
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COVID-19 vaccination: Registration on CO-WIN for third phase beneficiaries
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 25 (ANI): The eligible beneficiaries who are entitled to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from March 1, would be able to register themselves on the CO-WIN platform from Monday onwards.
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Tedros lauds India, PM Modi for supporting vaccine equity
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 25 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday thanked India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "supporting vaccine equity".
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Over 1.30 cr people in India so far vaccinated against COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 25 (ANI): With 3,95,884 vaccine doses administered to healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) on Thursday, the 41st day of nationwide COVID-19 vaccination, the total number of vaccination crossed 1.30 crores in the country, said Union Ministry of He
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Bangladesh PM's younger sister gets first shot of Covid-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangaldesh], February 25 (ANI): Shaikh Rehana, the younger sister of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has received her first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine.
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India offers 'Made in India' vaccines to all foreign diplomats and their f
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): Envoys, UN workers and people working in intergovernmental agencies and their families may not have to worry about Covid-19 vaccines. The Indian government has offered India-made vaccine in a special Covid vaccine drive for diplomats in all locations
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Pfizer, BioNTech begin testing of third dose against new COVID-19 variants
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 25 (ANI): Pfizer and its partner BioNTech on Thursday said that they have begun to test how well the third dose of their authorised vaccine stacks up against new coronavirus variants.
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India's proposal at WTO for TRIPS waiver gets support from 57 nations, say
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 25 (ANI): As many as 57 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have supported India's proposal for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver on COVID-19 vaccines, said Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal on Thursday.
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"Private sector has to be involved in India's growth story" Nirmala Sithar
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): At an exclusive interactive session organized by the Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) this Sunday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that India's growing and aspiring needs, as well as demands, cannot be only
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Worrisome Covid mutation that may weaken effectiveness of vaccines found i
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], February 25 (ANI): A new form of coronavirus variant is spreading rapidly in New York City and it carries a worrisome mutation that may weaken the effectiveness of vaccines, according to The New York Times.
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