Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India have approached Drugs Controller General of India requesting a change in factsheets on their vaccines that rule them out for those on blood thinners.
India’s vaccination strategy is smartly-designed and will strengthen healthcare workers to handle a second wave, says Dr V. Ravi, former basic sciences dean at NIMHANS.
Covaxin is contraindicated for people who use blood thinners, while Covishield asks recipients to inform physician. But doctors say there’s no rationale.
A preprint of the results were released last month, which revealed that all three vaccine formulations in the trial resulted in 'robust immune responses'.
Several institutes and experts advocate see this as an efficacy trial that could help boost confidence in vaccines, especially Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin that is in phase-3 trials.
Punjab, Uttarakhand & Assam plan to publish ads in newspapers, while Delhi is holding awareness sessions & interpersonal discussions to remove doubts over Covid vaccines.
An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
I received the AZ vaccine, I am on clopidogrel. There was no side effects except pain at the injection point.