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India had earlier in January approved two vaccines -- Oxford's Covishield manufactured by SII and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin -- for restricted emergency use.
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Bahrain had earlier approved Covishield to support its efforts towards vaccinating members at risk of developing complications from COVID-19.
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Public health experts feel that the rollout of the vaccination drive by prioritising the frontline workers in the first round is a positive step.
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Bangladesh will start the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine distribution from early February.
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On the fifth day i.e. on Friday, authorities had set a target of administering the Covid vaccine to 28,433 healthcare workers out of which 12,944 were inoculated
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Five labourers died in the fire which broke out in a five-storeyed under-construction building in the Serum Institute of India's Manjari premises in Pune.
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A total of 2 million doses of the Covishield vaccine, by Serum Institute of India, has been dispatched from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport to Dhaka.
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The sanitation worker from Gandhi Hospital was the first to be inoculated in Telangana
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Get vaccinated against Covid despite having pre-existing medical conditions like diabetes and hypertension
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Giving an update on Covid vaccination, the health ministry said 3,352 vaccination sessions were held and 1,91,181 beneficiaries vaccinated on Saturday
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Minister assured that people need not to panic about vaccine since it was being administered after testing its safety and efficacy.
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Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar along with MP Nama Nageswar Rao has formally launched the vaccination programme at the District Hospital.
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Krishnamma, a sanitation worker at Gandhi Hospital was the first person to receive the Covid vaccine in Telangana.
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The residents are a bit apprehensive about the lack of complete trial in case of Covaxin and might not participate in huge numbers thus defeating the purpose of vaccination, wrote the doctors
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Addressing the country digitally, the Prime Minister said that India managed to make two 'Made-in-India' vaccines in a very short period which usually takes years.
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So far, the government has procured 1.1 crore Covishield and 55 lakh Covaxin vaccines at a cost of Rs 200 and Rs 206 per dose, respectively.
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The world's biggest vaccination drives comes almost a year after the first coronavirus case was detected in India, which then claimed over 1.5 lakh lives and infected one crore people.
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58 healthcare centres ready to provide emergency services to individuals with Adverse Events Following Immunisation across State
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The trial will be conducted on 1,500 subjects as part of the randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study in India
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A total of 14 centres have been identified for vaccination in Karimnagar, Jagitial, Peddapalli and Rajanna-Sircilla districts on the first day of vaccination process from Saturday