Coronavirus Essential podcast | 50 lakh Indians have been vaccinated so far; Pfizer withdraws emergency use application in India
Tune in to the Coronavirus Essential podcast for all the top updates on the pandemic. February 05, 2021 / 07:40 PM IST
On February 5, the Union Health Ministry said that nearly 50 lakh beneficiaries have been inoculated under the countrywide COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
Meanwhile, Pfizer Inc has withdrawn their application for emergency-use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India according to a Reuters report.
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Coronavirus Essential podcast | India fastest country to reach 4 million vaccinations, says health ministry; WHO calls for patience over Wuhan probe
Tune in to the Coronavirus Essential podcast for all the top updates on the pandemic. February 03, 2021 / 05:59 PM IST
On February 3, the Union Health Ministry said that India has become the fastest country to reach 4 million vaccinations, which was achieved in 18 days.
Meanwhile, Hung Nguyen-Viet, one of the World Health Organization experts who is visiting various virus-linked sites in China s Wuhan, said that starting the investigation almost a year after the pandemic began was not ideal, but added that the mission was progressing well.
Coronavirus Essential podcast | India showing declining trend of COVID-19 cases in the last 4 months, says govt; 1500 Oxford trial volunteers were not informed about wrong dosage
Tune in to this podcast for all the top news on the COVID-19 pandemic. February 02, 2021 / 07:42 PM IST
The country is showing a declining trend of coronavirus cases since the last four months and compared to similarly placed nations, the cases and deaths per million population in India is among the lowest, the government told Rajya Sabha.
About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were given the wrong dose but were not informed that a mistake had been made after the blunder was discovered, according to Reuters reports.
Coronavirus Essential podcast | India s vaccine production capacity is world s is best asset, says UN chief; Novavax less effective against UK strain
Tune in to this podcast for all the top updates on the pandemic. January 29, 2021 / 06:46 PM IST
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres termed India’s vaccine production capacity as the “best asset” the world has to fight the coronavirus pandemic. This comment was during a press conference in New York.
Meanwhile, Novavax Inc. said that its COVID 19 vaccine appears 89 percent effective based on early findings and that it also seems to work, though not as well, against new mutated versions of the virus circulating in the UK and South Africa.