Tag: Vaccine

Brazil’s Health Ministry on Thursday signed a contract to purchase 20 million doses of Covaxin, the COVID-19 vaccine made by India’s Bharat Biotech, for delivery between March and May.

600,000 does of India-made Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine have been delivered to Ghana

The first big real-world study of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at preventing COVID-19, in a potentially landmark moment for countries desperate to end lockdowns and reopen economies.

Health officers from the Colombo Municipal Council yesterday urged all those who had been vaccinated and who would receive the anti COVID19 jabs in the coming weeks and months, to carefully preserve their vaccination cards as it would be required for the second dosage.

Following several complaints from citizens that the ongoing vaccination program was being conducted in an adhoc manner, the Daily Mirror learns that a decision may be taken to revert the vaccination program back according to the priority groups - in this instance those above the age of 60 years, in the coming days.

The Sri Lanka Society of Nephrology yesterday advised patients who were on immunosuppressive drugs to consult their caring physician over receiving the COVID-19 vaccinations, while the vaccination programme has begun for patients who were suffering from CKD or other kidney ailments.

India will on Tuesday make its first shipment of a locally made COVID-19 shot to the WHO-backed equitable vaccine distribution network COVAX, the government said.

Indian pharmaceutical companies Bharat Biotech and Biological E. Ltd said on Monday they could quickly rework their COVID-19 vaccine products to fight new variants once their genetic sequence is known.

Some health experts yesterday voiced serious concerns over the government’s ongoing vaccination programme against COVID-19 saying the programme seemed to have gone out of control with no planned system in place. Till yesterday evening, several frustrated citizens were voicing concerns on social media on how to get registered to receive the Astra Zeneca jabs,

India began inoculating people to fight the pandemic on January 16 and was administering doses at the fastest pace for weeks, before lingering hesitancy among some people and technical glitches meant the pace was overtaken by the United States.