SII has a tie-up with US' Novavax to manufacture and supply Covovax vaccine in India and in low- and middle-income countries as part of the COVAX vaccine alliance countries.
Moderna says its vaccine showed 93-100% efficacy in preventing symptomatic Covid in a study of teenagers, and no significant safety concerns were observed.
In his opening remarks to the World Health Assembly, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on nations to share doses through Covid Vaccine Global Access (COVAX).
States will have to foot about Rs 36,640 crore or more in vaccination costs after the Modi government suddenly made them responsible for inoculating most adults from 1 May.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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