Several of SII's volunteers are healthcare workers who will be eligible for getting the vaccine now. Unblinding phase 3 trial data will let them know if they are already vaccinated.
Both vaccines are part of India’s national immunisation schedule. BCG vaccine is given to infants to prevent tuberculosis, while rotavirus vaccine is to prevent diarrhoea.
Serum Institute of India will be selling each dose of Covishield at Rs 200 under the purchase agreement signed with Modi govt Monday for nearly one crore doses.
As India gears up to roll out a national vaccination programme, Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute's barbs at each other will only add to vaccine hesitancy.
AAI Cargo Logistics and Allied Services will ensure vaccine shipments move quickly in and out of Pune airport to the designated 41 airports finalised for delivery of vaccines.
Officials say India 'will not be in a rush', and Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka will get ‘priority’ after domestic demand for the Covid vaccines is fulfilled.
The joint statement comes after Bharat Biotech MD Dr Krishna Ella hit out at Serum CEO Adar Poonawalla’s comment that only Pfizer, Moderna, Oxford vaccines were effective.
In episode 653 of ‘Cut The Clutter’, the first in the new year, ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explained working of Covaxin, Covishield & Zydus Cadila’s DNA vaccine.
The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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