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Global Ebola vaccine stockpile established

A global stockpile has been established of the Ebola vaccine in an effort to provide the capacity to rapidly react to incidents of international spread of the disease, as well as curb current outbreaks. The effort was orchestrated by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which includes the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, …

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Vaccine shipments to states, cities begin

States are beginning to receive COVID-19 vaccine shipments ahead of the rollout of a mass inoculation campaign officials anticipate to be the world’s biggest. Officials hope that the coming six to eight months will witness 300 million inoculated against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19. The cohort …

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COVID-19 vaccine exports from India in the next few weeks

COVID-19 vaccine exports will commence in the weeks to come, the Government has confirmed. This is despite earlier confusion that the country’s largest vaccine manufacturer was not authorised to do so. India is gearing up for a mass vaccination campaign expected to begin next week. This follows emergency use authorisation for two vaccine candidates: one …

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Experts question the emergency use authorization given to Bharat Biotech and AstraZeneca

After the latest decision to approve the vaccine jointly produced by UK-Swedish biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University as well as by Bharat Biotech for emergency use in India to immunise people against the COVID-19 virus; many experts’ question the foundation of these approvals and reasons why other candidates such as Sputnik V and Pfizer …

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Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to be available in India in the first half of 2021 as questions over administration arise

Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine will be made available in India as early as the first half of 2021, according to AstraZeneca’s Country President for India Gagandeep Singh. Speaking at the 93rd annual convention of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Singh offered a timely update providing hope that there may be success in …

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India at the centre of the vaccination campaign?

India could be at the centre of the global vaccination campaign against COVID-19, experts state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi alluded to this recently. “Our scientists are very confident of succeeding in their endeavour of developing a vaccine against COVID-19,” he said. “There are names of vaccines from different countries doing the rounds in the market, …

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How to provide vaccines to a billion people

India is undeniably making progress against COVID-19. However, to stave off future spikes in cases, a vaccine becomes a necessity. With an effective and safe vaccine potentially on the horizon, India now faces the logistical nightmare of administering a vaccine as rapidly as possible to avoid further socioeconomic disruption, to a population well in excess …

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Multiple vaccines available by early next year

India could have multiple COVID-19 vaccines available for distribution by early next year. Given the rate of increase in cases of the virus, will India’s health infrastructure be able to roll out the vaccine across the country in sufficient doses to make an impact? “We’re expecting that early next year, we should have vaccine in …

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A vaccine is the only option to contain COVID

The point at which India can claim to have achieved herd immunity against COVID-19 is “far away” for the country’s population. This is according to Rajesh Bhushan, an official at the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He has claimed that the only way India can achieve a level of immunity across the population …

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The BCG vaccine: Not the hope people expected

Early this month a preliminary, unpublished study was released that claimed that countries that regularly use the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine had both fewer cases and fewer deaths than countries that did not use the vaccine. However, the BCG vaccine is unlikely to be the hope that it was preemptively established to be. The BCG …

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