Geneva [Switzerland], July 22 (ANI): Five member states of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) alone will account for three-quarters of the entire global output of COVID-19 vaccines this year, said Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday.
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 21 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Anaxee Digital Runners with its robust network of 20,000 plus on-field Digital Runners is clearing out all the misapprehensions surrounding vaccine jabs in the rural outskirts.
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 21 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil has registered 1,424 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 544,180, the health ministry said Tuesday.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 20 (ANI): The BKC jumbo vaccination centre in Mumbai saw a long queue of people coming in for inoculation since morning.
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday said more than 2.11 crore unutilised COVID-19 vaccines doses are still available with the States, UTs and private hospitals to be administered.
Paris [France), July 19 (ANI): France on Monday included Covishield produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University in the list of approved vaccines for travel to the country.
Kathmandu [Nepal], July 19 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a telephonic conversation on Monday congratulated Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on winning the vote of confidence in the house of representatives and also assured of early supply of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal.
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): The current vaccines available in India are effective against the COVID-19 Delta variant as per the studies done by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), says Dr N K Arora, co-chair, Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG).
Beijing [China], July 17 (ANI): China plans to use an mRNA vaccine, co-developed by China's Fosun Pharma and Germany's BioNTech, as a booster shot for those already vaccinated in the country using other Chinese vaccines.
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 17 (ANI): The Andhra Pradesh government has requested the Centre to allot doses of COVID-19 vaccines, which have not been used by private hospitals, to the state government.
Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): President Joe Biden on Friday criticized social media platforms like Facebook for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines, as his administration has blamed them for stalling U.S. vaccine rates.