News Update Pune hub to track vaccine chain across 41 key cities 6 Jan 2021 Command and control centre has been set up at aviation cargo wing, which will monitor the movement of COVID-19 vaccines across 41 airports with Pune where the vaccine manufacturers serum…
News Update DCGI Approves Serum Institute’s ‘Covishield’ , Bharat Biotech ‘Covaxin’ Vaccines for Emergency Restricted Use 3 Jan 2021 India's drug controller Drugs Controller General of India(DCGI) has approved Serum Institute of India's 'Covishield' and Bharat Biotech's 'Covaxin' for restricted emergency use. This was informed by Dr VG Somani,…
News Update California nurse tests positive after a week receiving Pfizer covid-19 vaccine 30 Dec 2020 A 45 year old nurse has been tested positive for covid-19 after a week receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. Matthew w, is a nurse who works at two local hospitals,…
News Update PIL filed in Supreme Court seeking guidelines to strictly restrict sale of fake Covid-19 vaccine 30 Dec 2020 A PIL has been filed before the Apex Court of India seeking directions for strictly restricting the sale of counterfeit vaccine for COVID-19 and formation of guidelines under the Disaster…
News Update Covid-19 vaccine: Dry run in Punjab, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat 27 Dec 2020 The exercise of dry run vaccine will continue for two days, December 28 and 29, in two districts each. There will be no vaccine involved in the process, which will…
News Update Australia’s billion dollar coronavirus vaccine is SCRAPPED after trial participants returned HIV false positives 11 Dec 2020 The University of Queensland had been developing the Covid vaccine in partnership with pharmaceutical company CSL and the government had ordered 51 million doses. However, it has been scrapped after…
News Update UK authorises the use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, will roll out the first stock by next week 2 Dec 20202 Dec 2020 United Kingdom on Wednesday became apparently the first country in the whole world to approve the use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 pandemic disease. They informed the media that they…
News Update Even successful COVID vaccine may not give lasting protection : CCMB 23 Oct 202023 Oct 2020 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Director Dr Rakesh Mishra said it might take a couple of years for a successful vaccine candidate to prove its efficacy among people…
News Update Novavax signs vaccine supply deal with Serum Institute 6 Aug 2020 Novavax Inc said on Wednesday it has entered a supply and license agreement with the Serum Institute of India for the development and commercialization of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The…
News Update Phase-1 of clinical trial for Covaxin begins at AIIMS 25 Jul 2020 On Friday, a 30 year old man was administered the first dose of India's indigenous COVID vaccine. He became the first person to test the Bharat Biotech's Covaxin at AIIMS,…