In a written reply, MoS Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said additional information has been requested at the level of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation for the examination.
India recently resumed Covid vaccine supply to the UN-backed COVAX with the govt allowing SII to export 50 lakh doses of Covishield to Nepal, Tajikistan, Bangladesh and Mozambique.
Study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases journal assessed 2,714 hospital workers from AIIMS New Delhi, who were most exposed to Covid and were primarily offered Covaxin.
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Covishield is administered in India at an interval of 12-16 weeks, and Covaxin at 4-6 weeks. Study, yet to be peer-reviewed, also says vaccines are effective against Delta and other variants.
Those inoculated with the Bharat Biotech-manufactured shot will not have to self-isolate after arrival in England. The move follows WHO's Emergency Use Listing for Covaxin.
There are concerns about use of the vaccine in children as young as two. The youngest that are currently being vaccinated are five-year-olds in the US.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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