Four more COVID-19 vaccines are in the pipeline and their manufacturers may approach the drug controller for emergency use authorisation, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
The government hinted that for now, the Covid vaccine recipients will not have the option to choose from the two vaccines approved for restricted emergency use
India will launch its Covid-19 vaccination drive from January 16 with priority to be given to nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers
Kerala will receive the first consignment of doses of Covishield on Wednesday from the Pune-based Serum Institute of India
District-wise cold chain points are ready. A total of 45 vehicles will transport vaccines to health unit districts
The rollout is slated to begin on Saturday
In the first round, 14,000 health workers would be inoculated
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The first consignment containing vials of coronavirus vaccine "Covishield" were dispatched from the Pune factory
The first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Bengal on Tuesday in a special flight from Pune
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The first consignment of 'Covishield' vaccine against coronavirus will arrive in Patna by a SpiceJet flight on Tuesday, a health official said
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Vaccines, by contrast, are designed to bring about a more consistent and optimal immune response. And they should boost whatever preexisting immunity a person might have from an infection
The Karnataka government said it was committed to conducting the vaccination drive in a transparent way
The flight carrying the vaccines will reach Nedumbassery airport at Kochi by 2 p.m. on Wednesday
AJAY BHUSHAN PANDEY says litigants in more than 96,000 appeals - involving disputed amounts of Rs 83,000 crore - have opted for the Vivad Se Vishwas scheme, which has been extended by a month
Sardar Patel Covid centre, the World's largest COVID-19 care facility run by the ITBP here in Chhatarpur, has started treating foreigners and people coming from abroad
Security has been stepped up at the Indira Gandhi International Airport from where the first consignment of Covishield vaccines from Pune will be transported to different parts of the city on Tuesday
Four airlines will operate nine flights to transport 56.5 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pune to 13 cities across the country on Tuesday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Vaccine movement has started, he said on Twitter, adding that first two flights operated by "SpiceJet and GoAir from Pune to Delhi and Chennai have taken off". "Today @airindiain @flyspicejet @goairlinesindia & @IndiGo6E will operate 9 flights from Pune with 56.5 lakh doses to Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Shillong, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Bengaluru, Lucknow & Chandigarh," he said on Twitter.