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Enlarge / A sign at the Johnson & Johnson campus on August 26, 2019 in Irvine, California. Covid-19 Coverage View more stories About 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine were ruined, and future vaccine shipments will be delayed. This all follows a mix-up at a manufacturing …

A group of African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries have supported India for supplying Covid-19 vaccines to different developing and least developed nations. During a discussion at the WTO (World Trade Organisation), a group of Latin American member states including Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Paraguay have also expressed their …

Leading global IT and professional services company Accenture will cover the cost of Covid-19 vaccination for all its 200,000 employees in India as well as their dependents who are enrolled on the company’s medical benefits programme. “For employees who are eligible and choose to receive the Covid-19 vaccination, Accenture will …

A key member of the Maharashtra government’s Covid task force has accused the Union health ministry of delaying the vaccine rollout among the general public and “putting the lives of people at risk”. The remark comes as the state reported a fresh breakout of cases amid fears of a mutant …

Two Canada-based researchers on Wednesday urged governments to delay administering the second dose of Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine, which they said had an efficacy of 92.6% after the first dose, as it was not significantly beneficial in the short term. Danuta Skowronski and Gaston De Serres said their findings were derived …

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and produced by has shown efficacy against the UK variant of the coronavirus, according to an ongoing study by researchers. Oxford University scientists who developed the ChAdOx1-nCoV19 vaccine have found that it remains effective against at least one of the new variants of …

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Indian government donation of Serum Institute of India manufactured Covishield vaccine to the Caribbean country. This comes just after Barbadian singer Rihanna’s tweet on farmers’ protest sparked a controversy that enraged the Netizens to respond in …

New Delhi: India has carried out the fifth highest number of COVID-19 vaccinations by inoculating 2.03 million people till January 26, the Health Ministry said, stressing the number of beneficiaries who have received the shots has crossed 25 lakh till Thursday afternoon. Addressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh …

Chennai: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday said soon it would be a reality to vaccinate the entire population in the country against COVID-19 after prioritising risk groups. The Centre has started a new COVID platform to track particulars of potential vaccine beneficiaries and also …