Pfizer, BioNTech, COVAX join hands for up to 40 million COVID vaccine doses Ruchika Sharma24 Jan 2021 10:15 AM ISTNew York & Mainz: Pfizer and BioNTech SE have recently announced an advance purchase agreement with COVAX for up to 40 million doses of the...
WHO Chief says World on brink of catastrophic moral failure on vaccines Hina Zahid21 Jan 2021 8:45 AM ISTGeneva: The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that the world was on the brink of a "catastrophic moral failure" on distributing...
Bharat Biotech Covaxin safe to use, efficacy meets WHO standards: Joint Drugs Controller MD Bureau18 Jan 2021 11:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: Allaying the apprehensions associated with the safety of the vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech, S. Eswara Reddy, Joint Drugs...
WHO team visits Wuhan to probe origins of Covid-19 pandemic Medical Dialogues Bureau17 Jan 2021 9:00 AM ISTThe World Health Organisation team's visit has become a bone of contention as Beijing, which questions the widely held view about the virus' origins...
COVID-19 patients to be given 2 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine within 21-28 days period: WHO MD Bureau6 Jan 2021 12:26 AM ISTGeneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that Covid-19 patients should be given two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine within a...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine gets emergency use approval from WHO MD Bureau1 Jan 2021 11:51 AM ISTThis is the first time WHO has granted emergency validation to a Covid-19 vaccine since the outbreak began a year ago.
UK COVID variant had 23 mutations in just months- Is it a cause of concern Medha Baranwal24 Dec 2020 1:59 PM ISTA new SARS-CoV-2 variant has been in the news since 14 December 2020, when the authorities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...
Health Ministry calls for emergency meeting over mutant COVID strain in UK Medical Dialogues Bureau22 Dec 2020 9:15 AM ISTExperts from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, others lead Lancet panel for universal health coverage in India Farhat Nasim14 Dec 2020 4:44 PM ISTThe panel will develop a roadmap to achieve universal health coverage and lay out the path to guarantee access to quality and affordable health care...
The WHO Foundation appoints Indian-origin health expert Anil Soni as first CEO MD Bureau13 Dec 2020 9:15 AM ISTNew York: Indian-origin global health expert Anil Soni has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of the newly launched The WHO...
Biological E Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine gets WHO pre-qualification MD Bureau12 Dec 2020 1:00 PM ISTBE's TCV is a single-dose injectable vaccine, which can be administered to children from six months of age to adults up to the age of 45 and it is...
WHO tightens guidelines on COVID masks for public, health workers Hina Zahid7 Dec 2020 3:47 PM ISTGENEVA - The World Health Organization on fine tuned guidelines on wearing face masks, recommending that, where COVID-19 is spreading, they be worn by...
