The Congress on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi whether the country’s citizens, particularly the poor, would receive the Covid-19 vaccine free and wondered why pharmaceutical companies...
Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) manufactured the first lot of COVID-19 vaccines, was among those who got vaccinated on Saturday, as India kicked off world's largest immunisat...
Rolling out vaccines in the time of a raging pandemic in a nation as populous as India was bound to be accompanied by attendant challenges. But the lack of transparency and public anxiety regarding th...
India has not banned the export of Covid-19 vaccines, the Union health secretary said on Tuesday, contradicting a claim by the head of the Serum Institute that the government would not allow exports f...
After their ugly public spat, Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech on Tuesday buried the hatchet and issued a joint statement saying they will work together to develop, manufacture and supply t...
Simmering undercurrents of business rivalry seem to have erupted into vocal corporate hostility between India’s two Covid-19 vaccine makers that medical experts say could leave the public confus...
Coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford will cost USD 3-4 per shot (Rs 219-292) to the government and will be priced at double that rate in private market ones such s...
“It would make every Indian proud that the two vaccines that have been given emergency use approval are made in India! This shows the eagerness of our scientific community to fulfil the dream of...
India’s drug regulatory expert panel on Saturday recommended conditional and restricted emergency use of a home-grown vaccine against the coronavirus disease without direct evidence for its prot...
The Oxford vaccine may be the first one against Covid-19 to be rolled out in India, as the drug regulator in the country is looking forward to a UK nod to the vaccine, which according to sources is li...