The monthly vaccine production capacity of Covishield is projected to be increased from 110 million doses per month to more than 120 million doses per month and the production capacity of Covaxin is projected to be increased from 25 million doses per month to around 58 million doses per month, government said.
WHO Prequalification enables the procurement of Rotavac 5D by agencies such as UNICEF and PAHO (Pan American Health Organisation) and will fast-track global access to this life saving vaccine.
Public Health England (PHE) said the estimated number of deaths prevented has increased significantly since the most recent estimates were published, with the estimated number of infections prevented doubling in just two weeks. It was previously estimated that up to July 9, around 37,000 deaths and 11,000,000 infections were prevented.
Five states -- Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh -- have administered more than 1 crore cumulative doses of COVID-19 Vaccine in the age group 18-44 years.
Indian on July 27 reported 29,689 new cases of COVID in the last 24 hours.
It said that more than 45.37 cr vaccine doses have been provided to states, UTs so far through all sources and a further 59,39,010 doses are in pipeline.
If turned out to be productive, the Israeli-made oral Covid vaccine will ease out the process of vaccination and would also not be required a cold-storage set-up, manpower efforts that are needed for administering injections.
"India's cumulative COVID vaccination coverage has surpassed 40 crore (40,44,67,526)," according to a provisional report compiled at 7 pm.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the steps taken by the state government to mitigate the effects of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and sought allocation of more vaccine doses.
India has witnessed the greatest increase in the number of children not getting DPT 1 first last year as compared to 2019.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on July 13 said that the national capital reported 45 new COVID-19 cases on July 12 and the positivity rate has dipped below 0.1%.
US regulators on Monday added a new warning to Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine about links to a rare and potentially dangerous neurological reaction, but said it's not entirely clear the shot caused the problem.
More than 1.44 crore balance and unutilised COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states, UTs and private hospitals to be administered.
Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik, on July 09, informed that due to shortage of vaccines, many centres in Mumbai are shut and to overcome this situation, the Centre should chart a plan.
The research, published in the journal Nature Communications on June 28, found that the immune response was as strong against the Alpha variant first identified in the UK, as against the original virus found in Wuhan, China in 2019.
Prior vaccination results in less severe disease against subsequent infection provide evidence that both humoral and cellular immune response play an important role in protection, according to the study which is yet to be peer-reviewed and was posted on bioRxiv preprint server on Friday.
Dr Harsh Vardhan lashed out at Rahul Gandhi on Friday after the Congress questioned the Modi govt over the lack of Covid vaccine doses.
"The man inside the vehicle first said that he is a officer of the Central Vigilance Commission. Then he suddenly changed his version and claimed to be an officer of th Narcotics Cell. He could not produce any identity card an kept on challenging and threatening us," Kolkata Police official said
Tennis fans gave the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine a standing ovation at Wimbledon's Centre Court on Monday, the first day of the tournament.
Mumbai-based pharmaceutical firm Cipla has received the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) nod to import Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for restricted emergency use in India, sources told news agency PTI.
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