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UN thanks India for offering 200,000 COVID vaccine doses for UN Peacekeepe
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], February 21 (ANI): United Nations on Saturday thanked India for offering 200,000 COVID vaccine doses for UN Peacekeepers and appreciated efforts to strengthen COVAX Facility for ensuring equitable access to vaccines for all.
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WHO warns unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution can lead to global risk
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 20 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday urged countries and drugmakers to help speed up the manufacture and distribution of vaccines across the globe, warning that the world could be "back at square one" if some coun
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India hands over 100,000 additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to Maldives
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], February 20 (ANI): External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Saturday handed over 100,000 additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid and Health Minister Kerafa Naseem.
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Pfizer to roll out 10 million COVID vaccines per week as Biden assures sho
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 20 (ANI/Sputnik): Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the company expects to double its rollout of coronavirus vaccines to 10 million a week over the next two weeks as US President Joe Biden pledged enough supply of doses to immunize all Americans by July.
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Priyanka Chaturvedi urges Harsh Vardhan to rope in private hospitals in CO
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Friday urged Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to rope in private hospitals in the nationwide COVID-19 immunisation drive.
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Dr Reddy's initiates process for emergency use authorisation of Sputnik V
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 19 (ANI): Dr Reddy's Laboratories said on Friday it has initiated the process with the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for emergency use authorisation of human adenoviral vector-based platform vaccine candidate Sputnik V.
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Clinical trials indicate India's vaccines will be effective against COVID-
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], February 19 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday said interim results of the ongoing clinical trials indicated that the indigenous COVID-19 vaccines would be effective against the mutated virus strains reported from the Unit
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Pfizer, Moderna vaccines can protect against coronavirus variant: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 18 (ANI): Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against concerning new coronavirus variants, including one first seen in South Africa called B.1.351, according to report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
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Hopes of region, world focused on rapid deployment of COVID-19 vaccines: P
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 18 (ANI): Noting that the spirit of collaboration is a valuable takeaway from COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said hopes of the region and the world are focused on rapid deployment of vaccines and there is need to maintain "the same
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UN chief Guterres calls for fair distribution of vaccines
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New York [US], February 18 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has criticised what he calls the "wildly uneven and unfair" global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines amid the pandemic.
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Consignment of Made in India COVID-19 vaccines airlifted for Dominican Rep
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 18 (ANI): India on Thursday airlifted consignment of Made in India COVID-19 vaccines for the Dominican Republic under the Vaccine Maitri initiative.
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Widely unfair: UN says 130 countries haven't received single COVID-19 vacc
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], February 18 (ANI): United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday (local time) slammed the "wildly uneven and unfair" distribution of coronavirus vaccines and said that only 10 countries have administered 75 per cent of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get
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