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An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

Vaccine makers call approval a giant leap

SII has stockpiled around 5 crore dosages of the vaccine and aims to produce up to 10 crore per month by March next year

4 Jan 2021 5:52 AM GMT

India has authorised the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and by local pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech, the countrys drug regulator said Sunday. (Representational Image: PTI)

DCGI approves two Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use

The approval is expected to kick off one of the world's biggest vaccination drives in coming days in the country of 1.3...

3 Jan 2021 6:24 AM GMT

Bharat Biotech has submitted data from Phase 1 and 2 trials to the CDSCO and the Drugs Controller General of India (Representational Image: AFP)

Nod for vaccines amid scare over new strains of Covid-19

Subject Expert Committee of the CDSCO granted permission to Bharat Biotech in the clinical trial' mode and with abundant...

2 Jan 2021 11:13 PM GMT

Covishield has been recommended based on the human trial results in the the United Kingdom, the United States of America and India (Representational Image: AFP)

Covishield moves closer to approval

The recommendation on Covishield has been forwarded to the Drugs Controller General of India, which is likely to take a...

1 Jan 2021 7:06 PM GMT

The Centre has purchased 11 million doses of Covishield vaccine for the ongoing inoculation drive. (Photo: AP)

India's gift of 200,000 COVID vaccine doses will be sent to UN...

More than 58 million Made in India coronavirus vaccine doses have reached about 70 countries in the recent weeks

26 March 2021 6:10 AM GMT

A health worker takes a swab sample of a passenger for coronavirus tests at the CSMT railway station, amid surge in COVID-19 cases, in Mumbai. (PTI)

COVID-19 surge: Passengers to Bengaluru will now need a negative test...

Several other states have also started imposing restrictions on movement of people

25 March 2021 8:21 PM GMT

A health worker collects swab sample of a passenger at a COVID-19 testing counter at New Delhi railway station, on May 25, 2021.

COVID cases, positivity rate take a dip in Delhi, but black fungus a...

The Centre said that India was the second country after the United States to cross 20 crore cumulative Covid-19...

26 May 2021 9:07 PM GMT

A health worker prepares to inoculate a person with the second dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a primary health centre in Hyderabad on May 10, 2021. (AFP)

Reporting of vaccination adverse effects made hugely difficult, going...

It is important for the government to take AEFI tracking more seriously and aggressively as it is doing for vaccination

23 May 2021 7:46 AM GMT

A health worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a person at a Hospital in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the worlds largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the effort is already well underway. (AP)

Probal DasGupta | India can vaccinate swiftly by using mohalla method'

A swifter pace of vaccinations is the antidote to arrest fatality numbers, build confidence and encourage a quicker...

19 May 2021 1:24 AM GMT

The controversy, however, is more about the drug regulators emergency approval to the second coronavirus vaccine, the indigenously produced Covaxin, before critical efficacy data of the third phase of clinical trials are out.

Govt ready to allow other companies to make Covaxin

The government has now engaged five Public Sector Undertakings to help increase production of Covaxin

13 May 2021 6:30 PM GMT

A staff member of the Rajawadi Hospital holds a vial of Covishield, AstraZenecas Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine made by Indias Serum Institute, in Mumbai. (AFP)

Serum says will raise monthly production to 10 crore doses by August

Sources said Health Ministry and the office of DCGI had sought from both the firms their production plan for June, July,...

12 May 2021 5:13 PM GMT

View of a vial of Indias COVAXIN vaccine against COVID-19. (AFP)

Differential vaccine pricing is right, Centre tells Supreme Court

Government defends move, says it is to incentivise vaccine makers

11 May 2021 2:24 AM GMT