Page 23 - Vaccination

Injecting certainty

India needs a coherent vaccination plan

Zydus Cadila's Covid-19 vaccine can be available from first week of Oct

The Union government is expecting Zydus Cadila's needle-free COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D to be available from the first week of October. Further, a decision on whether all children or only those with co-morbidities will be administered the COVID-19 vaccine on priority has not yet been taken, the government said on Thursday. Indigenously developed Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D on Friday received approval for Emergency Use Authorisation from the drug regulator, making it the first vaccine in the country which would be administered in the age group of 12-18 years. On the kind of negotiations in terms of pricing and when the government plans to procure ZyCoV-D, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said, "Coming to negotiations, what we have understood from media reports as well as our own engagement with the vaccine manufacturing company is that they would be in a position to make available this vaccine from the first week of October." "So we are in talks with them and the moment we crystallise

Reducing gap between two doses of Covishield is being considered: Sources

Reducing the gap between two doses of Covishield is being considered and it will be discussed in the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in India (NTAGI), official sources said

Karnataka CM urges Centre for 500,000 Covid vaccine doses daily from Sep

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Thursday met Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and requested him to supply 5 lakh doses of Covid vaccine daily to the state. In the meeting, Bommai updated the Union minister on measures taken to control spread of the pandemic. "I informed that the state has planned 5 lakh a day vaccination programme from next month. And the minister has assured support to meet the demand of the programme," Bommai told reporters after the meeting. Mandaviya informed that the Centre will give more doses of vaccines from September-October onwards to all states, including Karnataka, he said, adding that the state will start preparing for this programme immediately. Earlier, the Centre had provided 3.5 lakh doses of vaccine a day. Last week, it was increased to 4-4.5 lakh doses a day. "Yesterday, we touched 5 lakh doses a day. In future, we plan 5 lakh doses a day," Bommai said. Later, he also called on Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan w

SII informs Centre it will supply around 200 mn Covishield doses in Sep

SII has informed the Centre that it will be able to supply around 20 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield in September itself to Government to India and private hospitals, official sources said

Heart inflammation more common after Covid than Pfizer vaccine: Study

Pfizer's Covid vaccine has been linked with an increased risk of developing myocarditis -- a type of heart inflammation.

Covid most transmissible 2 days before, 3 days after symptoms appear: Study

People infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, are most contagious two days before, and three days after they develop symptoms, according to a study conducted in China. The research, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, also found that infected individuals were more likely to be asymptomatic if they contracted the virus from a primary case -- the first infected person in an outbreak -- who was also asymptomatic. "In previous studies, viral load has been used as an indirect measure of transmission," said Leonardo Martinez, an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) in the US. "We wanted to see if results from these past studies, which show that that COVID cases are most transmissible a few days before and after symptom onset, could be confirmed by looking at secondary cases among close contacts," Martinez said. The researchers conducted contact tracing and studied COVID-19 transmission among approximately 9,000 close .

Over 600 mn Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in India, says govt

India took 85 days to touch the figure of 100 million

Covid-19 pandemic: India needs to focus on vaccinating more, says Guleria

He said that there was not enough evidence that a booster dose would be beneficial

Mumbai sees 343 new Covid-19 cases, four deaths; 272 recover

Mumbai on Wednesday reported 343 coronavirus positive cases, which is the second highest one-day infection count this month, a civic official said

Credit Suisse postpones US office return for unvaccinated staff

Employees that are not yet vaccinated are expected to work remotely until they receive the shot. The memo didn't specify that employees would be obliged to get vaccinated.

States asked to vaccinate all school teachers on priority before Sept 5

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday said more than two crore additional COVID-19 vaccine doses are being made available to states this month

WhatsApp, MyGov team up to let users book vax appointments through chatbot

Earlier this month, WhatsApp introduced the functionality to download the vaccination certificate through the same bot

Gennova's mRNA-based Covid vaccine gets nod for Phase 2/3 clinical trials

Gennova's mRNA-based Covid vaccine development programme was partly funded by the DBT under Ind CEPI in June 2020

India doesn't have sufficient data to decide on Covid booster dose: Experts

Not enough data has been generated locally to decide on the need for a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine for those fully inoculated, say experts amid the possibility of a third wave

Covid-19 vaccination slots can now be booked on WhatsApp: Health Minister

In a bid to make the inoculation process easier, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccination slots can now be easily booked on WhatsApp

Work on non-Covid vaccines gives pharma firms an injection of hope

Approach drug regulator, seeking permission to conduct clinical trials

Over 57 cr Covid-19 vaccine doses provided to states, UTs so far: Centre

More than 57.05 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been provided to state and UTs so far, the Union Health ministry said on Monday

S Africa hopeful of herd immunity as vaccination opens for all above 18

South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla is hopeful the country would achieve herd immunity against coronavirus if 70 per cent of its 18 to 35 population is vaccinated.

Coronavirus vaccination to resume in Mumbai today post 2-day halt

After receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses, Mumbai will resume vaccination from Saturday, informed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation