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India approves Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, confirms Javadekar
The subject expert committee (SEC) is all set to authorise the use of Covishield, the vaccine to fight Covid-19, for emergency use in the country, sources said on Friday. 96,000 personnel have been trained all over the country for the vaccination campaign and 83 crore syringes will be needed to administer the vaccine. The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) will hold a press conference on Su... [Full Article...]
The five most infected areas in Ireland as COVID cases soar
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said: "The most concerning trend at present is the rapidly increasing number of people being admitted to hospital - we are now admitting between 50 - 70 people a day to our hospital system". [Full Article...]
British govt allows mixing doses of different coronavirus vaccines
More than a million people in the United Kingdom have received their first shot of the Pfizer vaccine. "We are in productive discussions with the European Commission on how to make more of our vaccine in Europe, for Europe", a spokeswoman said. [Full Article...]
Vaccine point for coronavirus to be established at the Karachi Expo Centre
Around 1,14,100 vaccinators have been trained on the process to be followed at the vaccination sites which includes beneficiary verification, vaccination, cold chain & logistics management, Bio-Medical Waste management, AE7FI management and uploading the information on Co-WIN software. [Full Article...]
Britain Will Allow Mixing Of COVID-19 Vaccines On Rare Occasions
According to The Sun Online, a member of the Oxford/AstraZeneca team said: "The plan is to build it up fairly rapidly - by the third week of January we should get two million a week". Pakistan will also purchase 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm, a minister said on Thursday, the first official confirmation of a vaccine purchase by the South Asian country as it battles... [Full Article...]
Odisha Conducts COVID-19 Vaccine Dry Run At 31 Places
During this, he made this announcement while talking to journalists. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday stated that COVID-19 vaccine will be provided free of cost across the country. "The person who is administered COVID-19 vaccine will be monitored by doctors or nurses in these rooms, and will be provided medical support in case he or she feels uneasy due to anxiety or any other... [Full Article...]
‘Super’ Covid-19 Emerges in Florida, 3rd State After California and Colorado
In Florida, the state health department tweeted that the strain was identified in a 20-year-old man in Martin County with no history of travel. The Covid-19 variant is believed to be more transmissible but not more deadly than the strain that started the pandemic, and there is no evidence that vaccines are any less effective against it, health officials say. [Full Article...]
World Health Organization approves emergency use of Pfizer vaccine for poorest nations
The vaccine developed by BioNTech and its United States partner Pfizer was the first to be approved in the European Union in late December. WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) will convene on January 5th, 2021, to formulate vaccine specific policies and recommendations for this product's use in populations, drawing from the SAGE population prioritization recommenda... [Full Article...]