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Mass vaccinations begin at private hospitals in Oman

  Senior Correspondent,  bdnews24.com Published: 03 Jun 2021 02:00 AM BdST Updated: 03 Jun 2021 02:00 AM BdST The Directorate General of Health Services or DGHS is planning to begin administering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the end of next week. "); } Those who registered for coronavirus vaccines through the Surokkha platform will get the Pfizer doses, DGHS sp...

Covid-19: Bihar extends lockdown by a week, curbs in Uttarakhand to continue till June 9 India registered 1,52,734 new infections and 3,128 deaths on Monday. Updated 2 minutes ago Representative image: Migrant workers from Uttarakhand take a bus to Ahmedabad railway station. | Amit Dave/Reuters Bihar on Monday extended its coronavirus-induced lockdown till June 8, while the Uttarakhand government announced that curbs would continue till June 9. The C...

Civic task force puts housing socs’ request to host CVCs on premises on hold; approves drives at industry units, corporates

Synopsis Vaccinations numbers were at 1.82 million on May 1. Leaving aside Sunday (439,906), when vaccination numbers are usually low, total inoculations dropped to 1.73 million on Monday and 1.56 million the next day. This is the lowest since mid-March, except for Sundays and holidays, and well below the peak of over 4 million on some days in April. AP India’s vaccination numbers plunged to a near-two-month low of 1.56 million jabs on Tuesday, days after the new inoculation phase started on ...

EU seeks 10 mn AstraZeneca vaccines from India to meet shortfall: Indian source SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 01, 2021, 06:51 PM IST Share Synopsis The EU wants the doses from Serum, the worlds largest vaccine maker, to offset supply shortfalls from AstraZenecas European plants and speed up the blocs vaccine roll-out. Reuters The European Union has asked India to allow it to buy 10 million doses of AstraZenecas COVID-19 vaccine from Serum Institute of India, a government official told Reuters, th...

Covaxin efficacy data has no effect on opposition states SECTIONS Share Synopsis A day after Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech reported its interim data, the three states on Thursday said they would wait for a formal approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) before using Covaxin for the immunisation drive. AFP The Opposition-ruled states of Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Kerala, which have refused to use Bharat Biotechs Covaxin, have not changed their stance even after the manufacturer ...

Covaxin sent to more states, Chhattisgarh says won’t use it now SECTIONS Share Synopsis Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Punjab, Gujarat, West Bengal, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh have each received 37,760 doses of Covaxin. The vaccine vials supplied to the states carry a May expiration date. NEW DELHI: The Centre has expanded the ambit of Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin by supplying it to seven new states in the middle of the first phase of public immunisation drive. However, Chhattisgarh ...