Covishield is effective against Covid-19 Delta variant, suggests Lancet study

Anew study in the Lancet indicates that the Covishield vaccine against coronavirus remained effective during the Delta variant outbreak in India earlier this year. The vaccine had an efficacy of 63 per cent in fully vaccinated people, while it was 81 per cent effective against moderate-to-severe disease. Conducted by…

Study On Mixing Covaxin, Covishield Gets Drug Regulator Approval: Sources

New Delhi:  A study on mixing Covishield and Covaxin, the two main vaccines used in India’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, has been given the go-ahead by the Drugs Controller General Of India (DCGI), say sources. This study and its clinical trials, sources add, will be conducted by Vellore’s Christian…

Covishield not on EU vaccine ‘Green Pass’ list: Adar Poonawalla says issue will be resolved soon

Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Monday that he had taken up the issue of the European Union’s new ‘vaccine passport’ scheme not recognising the India-made version of the Oxford jab at the “highest levels”. Adar Poonawalla assured that the matter would be resolved…

Tax Relief On Money Received For Covid Treatment From Employers

The government on Friday extended deadlines for various income tax compliances and said the amount paid by an employer to employees for COVID-19 treatment would be tax-exempt. Also, payment received from employer by family members in case of death of an employee due to COVID-19 would be exempt from income tax. The…

Covaxin, Covishield effective against Delta variant of Covid-19: Centre

HIGHLIGHTS 29 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered to date 22 cases of Delta Plus variant have been reported in India: Rajesh Bhushan Genome sequencing of a total of 45,000 samples has been conducted at 28 INSACOG labs Covaxin and Covishield are effective against the Delta variant of coronavirus,…

Covid vaccine scam: BMC asks SII to verify batch of Covishield vials used in Mumbai housing society

In order to ascertain whether the vaccines administered to the residents of Mumbai’s Hiranandani Heritage housing society were genuine or fake, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday wrote to Serum Institute of India (SII) and sought details of the batch number of the Covishield vials used in the…

Bihar woman gets both Covaxin, Covishield shots in 5 minutes, condition stable

A woman in Bihar was administered shots of Covishield and Covaxin Covid-19 vaccines in a span of five minutes. The woman, identified as Sunila Devi, is doing okay and is under the observation of a medical team, officials have said. The incident reportedly took place on June 16 at a village in Punpun block of rural…

How Centre’s U-turn in Covid-19 vaccine policy creates a clear roadmap

The Opposition has claimed that its concerted pressure for centralised procurement of vaccines and the Supreme Court’s rap on the Centre’s knuckles was behind the change in policy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back in the hot seat to drive India’s Covid-19 vaccination efforts, eight weeks after the…