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Dubai launches initiative to speed up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Dubai [UAE], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The UAE emirate of Dubai on Sunday announced creating a "logistics alliance" to speed up supplies of two billion doses of the vaccine against the coronavirus disease via the COVAX initiative.
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PM Modi says India fastest in world to vaccinate citizens against COVID-19
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New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): India, which is running the world's biggest COVID-19 vaccination drive, is the fastest in vaccinating its citizens, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.
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Bolivia to get about 1 million COVID-19 vaccine shots in February
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La Paz [Bolivia], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Bolivia expects to get nearly one million doses of coronavirus vaccines next month, Bolivian President Luis Arce has announced.
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Centre aims to provide adequate health, education to every child by 2022,
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's motto is to provide adequate health, education, and nutritional facility to every child and safety to women in the country by the year 2022.
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Pentagon pauses plan to offer COVID-19 vaccine to Guantanamo Bay prisoners
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Washington [US], January 31 (ANI): The Pentagon (the US Department of Justice Headquarters) on Saturday announced that it is pausing the vaccination of Guantanamo Bay detainees against COVID-19.
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India delivering COVID-19 vaccines to Oman reflects friendship spanning mi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Muscat [Oman], January 31 (ANI): A consignment of India-made vaccines arrived in Muscat on Saturday, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar adding that India providing vaccines to Oman is a friendship "spanning millennia."
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Court rejects Cutis Biotech plea against Serum Institute claiming its trad
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Pune (Maharashtra) [India], January 30 (ANI): A civil court in Pune rejected the injunction application filed on behalf of CUTIS Biotech against Serum Institute of India (SII), claiming trademark "Covishield" of the Covid-19 vaccine, on Saturday.
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Union Health Secy advises States, UTs to increase COVID-19 vaccine coverag
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New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI): Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Thursday advised states and union territories to increase the percentage coverage of COVID-19 vaccine beneficiaries and optimize sessions per day.
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Algeria launches 1st phase of mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Algiers [Algeria], January 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The first phase of the mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus has been launched in Algeria after the country received the first shipment of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, national media reported on Saturday.
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Vietnam approves AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19
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Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], January 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The Vietnamese authorities have approved the use of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine against COVID-19, the government news portal reported on Saturday.
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Serum Institute seeks DCGI nod for clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine COV
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New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI): Pharma giant Serum Institute of India (SII), whose Covishield vaccine has already received restricted emergency use approval by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), has now sought permission to start clinical trials of 'COVOVAX', a COVID-19 vacci
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IOA president Narinder Batra receives first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI): The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday in New Delhi.
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