The SII will commence Covid vaccine export under the COVAX programme from 23 November. Nepal, Tajikistan, Mozambique and Bangladesh are the 4 nations that will receive the doses.
SII's Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs is learnt to have recently communicated to Union Health Ministry that it has a manufactured stock of 24,89,15,000 Covishield doses.
According to Dr Subhash Salunkhe, one reason for increasing Covishield dose gap was vaccine shortfall, says ‘there should be more latitude in this now that situation has eased’.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first to show across an entire country how effective vaccines are at preventing death from the Delta variant.
During a call, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya also discussed the resumption of supply of Covishield to COVAX facility.
Ten lakh doses of Covaxin would be sent to Iran and 10 lakh doses of Covishield will be exported each to Myanmar, Nepal & Bangladesh under the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ programme in October.
Study, yet to be peer-reviewed, says vaccinated individuals infected with Delta have lower odds of spreading virus if they got Pfizer shot than if they received AstraZeneca-Oxford.
Besides, mandatory quarantine, British nationals will also have to get a pre-departure RT-PCR test, one on arrival and a third one 8 days after landing in India.
China-made Sinovac has also been approved by Australia's top drugs regulator, removing a barrier for international students seeking to study in the country, PM Scott Morrison said.
From 2023 to 2024, there was an estimated increase of 200 per cent in financial fraud, with reported losses of over Rs 22,000 crore. But the concern for India is deeper.
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