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'Caution folks': Top WHO scientist flags 'dangerous trend' of mixing COVID
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 12 (ANI): Mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines from different manufacturers is a "dangerous trend" and could lead to chaos as there is limited data on it on the practice, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Monday.
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15 EU countries recognise Covishield vaccine, says WHO Chief Scientist
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 10 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Friday said 15 countries in the European Union (EU) now recognise Covishield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University
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Delta variant 'well on its way' to becoming globally dominant, says WHO Ch
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 18 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Friday said that the Delta variant is "well on its way" to becoming the dominant variant globally because of its significantly increased transmissibility.
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WHO strongly supports TRIPS waiver, not time to worry about patents, profi
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Monday (local time) said that the global health body strongly believes that Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver to COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade O
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WHO Chief Scientist says India's COVID-19 figures worrying, calls for exer
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): As India is in the grasp of a devastating second wave of COVID-19, World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Monday (local time) termed the rate of infections and deaths in the country as "worrying" and called on governments
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Less than 10 pc of world's population have coronavirus antibodies: WHO Chi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that less than 10 per cent of the global population have antibodies to the coronavirus, WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said.
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WHO chief scientist says early to judge if COVID-19 mutation in minks can
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization Soumya Swaminathan said on Friday it was too early to decide whether the coronavirus mutation found in the farmed mink population in Denmark could impact the efficacy of vaccines.
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WHO expects to see COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2020 at earliest
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that a vaccine against the coronavirus disease will be ready for registration by the end of 2020 or early next year at the earliest, Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO chief scientist, said on Monday.
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COVID-19 vaccine distribution expected to start in Mid-2021: WHO Chief Sci
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 5 (ANI/Sputnik): The large-scale global distribution of vaccines against COVID-19 is not expected until mid-2021, the World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan told a press briefing on Friday.
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