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The move is to ensure that all countries have safe, fast and equitable access to initial doses when they are available. (AFP)

UNICEF to lead global procurement, supply of COVID-19 vaccines

UNICEF is world's largest single vaccine buyer, procuring over 2 billion doses of various vaccines annually on behalf of...

7 Sept 2020 10:34 AM IST

About 90% of Sinovac Biotech Ltd employees and their families have taken an experimental coronavirus vaccine. (AFP Photo)

90% of Sinovac employees took COVID vaccine: CEO

The program is intended for specific groups, including medical staffers, those who work at food markets, transportation...

6 Sept 2020 3:36 PM IST

Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (AP)

Russia publishes virus vaccine results, weeks after approval

Developers said the vaccine appeared to be safe and to prompt an antibody response in all 40 people tested in the second...

5 Sept 2020 1:00 PM IST

Vials used by pharmacists to prepare syringes used on the first day of a first-stage safety study clinical trial of the potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in Seattle. The US federal government has told states to prepare for a coronavirus vaccine to be ready to distribute by Nov. 1. (AP File)

US states told to be ready for vaccine distribution by November 1

The timeline raised concern among public health experts about a vaccine approval driven by political considerations...

3 Sept 2020 9:02 AM IST

Some nations have worked directly to secure supplies of vaccine, but others are pooling efforts to ensure success. The Trump administration said that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine. (Representational Image:AP)

US will not join global effort to find and distribute COVID-19 vaccine

The decision to go it alone follows the White House's decision in early July to pull the United States out of the WHO

2 Sept 2020 10:29 AM IST

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

Second dose of COVID-19 jab will see more adverse effects: Experts

Experts say the human body is now ready to act against the antigen that the vaccine is providing

18 Feb 2021 3:15 AM IST

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, wife Patty Quillin donate USD 30 million...

The Geneva-based Gavi, on Friday shared the information about the cash donation from Hastings and Quillin

20 April 2020 9:49 AM IST

In this Wednesday, April 8, 2020 photo provided by the Center for Pharmaceutical Research, a pharmacy technologist using a biosafety level 2 hood prepares a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine candidate for testing in Kansas City, Mo. This early safety study, called a Phase 1 trial, is using a vaccine candidate developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals. (Photo | AP)

Studies being done to see whether vaccines for TB and Polio could be...

Theories say countries with large BCG-vaccinated populations may fare better against coronavirus but UK with a high...

14 April 2020 1:30 PM IST

A doctor from inside a protective chamber collects swab sample of a person at a newly installed Walk-In Sample Kiosk (WISK) for COVID-19 test at a government-run hospital during the nationwide lockdown, in Chennai. PTI photo

Govt warns chemists against OTC sales of drug after people stock up...

India is the world's largest manufacturer of hydroxychloroquine, which is used in the treatment of malaria

14 April 2020 9:38 AM IST

Scientific coordinator Aude Echalier (R) and head of quantitative pharmacology Martin Redhead look at a screen showing results of vaccine research as they work in the laboratory of British pharmatech company Exscientia at Oxford Science Park in Oxford, in southern central England. AFP Photo

Vaccine holds the kley to Tokyo Olympics, says Japanese medical...

He called for more testing as the current rate was not enough to judge whether infection rates in the country were...

28 April 2020 8:30 AM IST