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A health worker displays empty vials of Covaxin in Guwahati. File | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) issued a letter to the researchers of Banaras Hindu University last week, countering their study on the side effects of India’s indigenous vaccine for COVID — Covaxin. In a…
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New Delhi: In the wake of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca admitting in a UK court that its Covid vaccine can cause blood clots in rare cases, a group of doctors on Thursday expressed deep concern over the safety of the Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. At a press conference, the doctors, under…
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File picture of a nurse holding vials of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 | Photo Credit: AP AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” since the pandemic. The company also said it would proceed to withdraw the vaccine Vaxzevria’s marketing authorisations…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most…
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32 per cent of the world’s population has received at least one booster or additional vaccine dose. Geneva: A UN anti-racism committee on Thursday urged rich countries — particularly Britain, Germany, Switzerland and the United States — to waive coronavirus vaccine patents and said they violated a guarantee against racial discrimination. In June 2022, World…
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