"The present rate of COVID-19 vaccine supply," will take another year for all to get vaccinated, says the Delhi health department.
Americans have managed to get COVID booster shots by taking advantage of the nation’s vaccine surplus and loose tracking of those who have been fully vaccinated.
The Union Health Ministry said the cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 50 crore with more than 43.29 lakh doses given on Friday.
For the study, published in the journal Transplant Infectious Disease, the team examined clinical data encompassing 2,151 solid organ transplant recipients, including kidney, liver, lung and heart. Of this total number, 912 patients were fully vaccinated and 1,239 were controls (1,151 were unvaccinated and 88 partially vaccinated). Nearly 70 per cent of the vaccinated patients received the mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna).
More than 51.16 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources and 20,49,220 jabs are in the pipeline.
Xi Jinping pledged 2 billion doses of Chinese vaccines would be supplied to the world through this year and $100 million would be donated to a U.N.-backed distribution program, state media reported.
The government on Tuesday informed the Parliament that no recommendation was made on mixing anti-coronavirus vaccines.
Karachi Expo Centre stopped its inoculation drive following chaos after hundreds of people rushed to get themselves vaccinated.
Delhi has a population of about two crore and among them, about 1.5 crore are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the chief minister said.
All beneficiaries who have received vaccines in India are registered on the Co-WIN portal, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha
It's the 2nd time FDA has extended shelf life on vaccines since June, when the agency said they could be used for up to 4.5 months. When first authorized in February, the FDA said the vaccines could be stored for three months at normal refrigeration levels.
Nearly 48 per cent parents are not willing to send their children to schools till they are vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection, says a new survey.
Responding to a question on whether it has come to the notice of the government that Covaxin used in India is not recognised by many countries, Pawar said the government is aware that Covaxin at present is not part of WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL).
"Protection to the extent of 93 per cent was seen (in people who were administered the Covishield vaccine) and this was during the second wave which was driven by the Delta variant... also 98 per cent mortality reduction was seen," NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul said.
Dr Reddy's, which has tied up with Russian Direct Investment Fund for Sputnik V in India, soft-launched the vaccine in India in May 2021 after receiving Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in April 2021.
A vaccination camp was organised in Karanai village on Monday afternoon and a huge crowd of villagers had gathered for the inoculation.
A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah observed that people are generally compelled to beg on the streets to eke out some elementary livelihood due to the absence of education and employment.
Shortage of vaccines again looms in the city as people form a long queue outside COVID vaccination centres in Mumbai. The BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) vaccination centre in Dharavi on Sunday morning witnessed an abnormal rush as people queued up along the road adjacent to the centre. Mumbai has been facing a shortage of vaccines since the beginning of July.
A new study highlights antibodies that are able to neutralise the newer strains, while identifying regions of the spike protein that have become more resistant to attack.
The study, led by the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Universities of Birmingham, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, and supported by the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium, is one of the most comprehensive studies into the immune response generated by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to date.
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