Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla takes COVID vax shot
The best way to endorse any product is if the founder or its top management uses it. Same holds true for a vaccine, in fact, adds more confidence into the product. After COVID-19 pandemic choke-slammed people s hopes and faith, anything short of a grand gesture wouldn t get through to people. That s exactly what owner and CEO of Serum Institute Adar Poonawalla did to prove Covishield – one of the two vaccines approved for emergency use in India – is safe and effective.
Poonawalla shared a video of him getting the Covishield vaccine on camera. In doing so, he wants to endorse the vaccine s safety and efficacy, clearing any doubts and fears that Indians might have before getting the shot.
File photo of Congress leader Manish Tewari. | Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS
A war of words ensued between Congress MP Manish Tewari and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday after the former again raised questions on the efficacy of the Bharat Biotech’s coronavirus vaccine, Covaxin. The vaccine has been granted emergency use even though it has not completed its Phase 3 trials.
“Many eminent doctors have raised questions with regard to the efficacy and safety of Covaxin with the government saying that people will not be able to choose which vaccine they would like to take,” Tewari had told ANI earlier in the day. “This goes against the entire doctrine of informed consent.” The altercation between the Congress leader and the health minister came as India began its coronavirus vaccination drive.
Pune: Serum Institute of India (SII) owner and chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla on Friday said the first overseas consignment of 20 lakh doses .
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Co-WIN: All you need to know about mobile app behind India’s Covid-19 vaccine program [Hindustan Times, New Delhi]
Jan. 16 Co-WIN, a mobile application, has been developed to monitor the progress of the nationwide vaccination program launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan had earlier tweeted that the app would “enable us to drive the world’s largest immunisation program.”
Two vaccines, Covishield from the Serum Institute of India (SII) and Covaxin from the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, have been approved and used for inoculations across the country.
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Concerns that I have articulated are real and not imagined, said Congress leader Manish Tewari. It is not fear mongering: Manish Tewari
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New Delhi: A day after 23 elderly patients died in Norway after their immunization with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine, Congress leader Manish Tewari in a tweet told Harsh Vardhan that concerns raised by him are real and not imagined .
Tewari was responding to a tweet by the Health Minister in which the latter said the Congress is only passionate about spreading distrust and rumours.