Coronavirus vaccine news highlights: Dr Reddy’s submits Phase-II safety data of Sputnik V to DCGI, seeks approval for Phase-III trials

The first batch of Covishield vaccines leaves the Serum Institute of India for Pune airport. Track the latest updates on Covid-19 vaccines here.

. Vaccines should be here by January 13. If the drive has to begin on January 16 & stock needs to be sent everywhere, it should arrive two days before. Government has to decide which vaccine to be given: Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo. (ANI)

. About 16 lakh frontline workers in Karnataka will be administered Covid-19 vaccine in the first phase starting from January 16, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Monday.

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. About 16 lakh frontline workers in Karnataka will be administered Covid-19 vaccine in the first phase starting from January 16, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Monday.

. Sputnik V meets the primary endpoint of safety in the phase-2 clinical trials in India. Dr Reddy’s has submitted the phase-2 safety data for Drugs Controller General of India’s approval to continue phase-3 clinical trials: Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd

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. Besides making all preparations, India built a platform to share vaccine with other countries & emerged as a global leader in providing vaccine. The portal by Govt of India - CoWIN - to deliver vaccine is an example of the capability of India's IT: MP CM after interaction with PM

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. Covid-19 vaccination is about to begin. Still, there are doubts among people regarding vaccines. We want PM Modi to begin this initiative by getting vaccinated himself so that doubts are done away with, trust is built & PM creates a new history: Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik

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. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Monday requested its 3.5 lakh members to voluntarily get the COVID-19 vaccine to show to the world that these shots are safe and efficacious.

. The Serum Institute on India on Monday said it has received the purchase order from the Centre for the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the two already approved made-in-India Covid-19 vaccines are more cost-effective than any other in the world and have been developed as per the country's needs.

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. Two approved Covid-19 vaccines in India more cost-effective than foreign vaccines and have been developed as per our needs, he added.

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. Russia announced Monday that 1.5 million people around the world had received its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine as part of an initiative Kremlin critics have described as a geopolitical push.

. Days ahead of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination roll-out, the city's first coronavirus patient urged people on Monday to get immunised without hesitation and listen to the scientific community, and not get swayed in by naysayers or those "spreading misconception" about it.

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. The Indian government has been negotiating with the Serum Institute of India to bring down the price of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, people close to the matter said, delaying the roll-out of the country's immunisation programme.

. Britain will have offered Covid-19 vaccines to those in the top four priority categories -- about 15 million people -- by the middle of next month, the British minister responsible for vaccination programme said on Monday.

. India reports 16,311 new Covid-19 cases, 19,299 discharges, and 161 deaths in last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry. Total cases: 1,04,66,595 Active cases: 2,22,526 Total discharges: 1,00,92,909 Death toll: 1,51,160

. India aims to begin vaccinating its 1.3 billion people against coronavirus from Saturday, a colossal and complex task compounded by safety worries, shaky infrastructure, and public scepticism.

In one of the world's biggest rollouts, the planet's second-most populous nation hopes to inoculate 300 million people -- equal almost to the entire US population -- by July.

First to get one of two vaccines granted "emergency approval" will be 30 million health and other frontline workers, followed by around 270 million people aged over 50 or deemed high-risk all over the vast nation.

. US President-elect Joe Biden will receive his second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, his office announced, three weeks after his first injection was broadcast live on TV to boost public confidence in the jab.

. Coronavirus infections have now surpassed 90 million confirmed cases around the world, as more countries braced for a wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly 2 million worldwide.

. Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Sunday said he would be the first person in the state to be administered the vaccine during phase-I planned for health workers, if the central government allowed public representatives also to be covered.

. Even as Kerala is yet to receive any formal communication regarding the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines, the state is all set for the vaccination drive.

. Every adult in Britain will have been offered a coronavirus vaccination by the autumn, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday, in the UK's biggest ever inoculation campaign.

Hancock said public health officials are currently vaccinating 200,000 people daily, as they race to meet a target of inoculating 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February.

. The first batch of 13.90 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines that will be delivered to Karnataka will be Covishield, officials said on Sunday, as the state was all set to receive the shipments expected to arrive on Monday.

"The first batch will be the vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India,” said Dr Rajani Nageshrao, Deputy Director, Immunisation, adding thegovernment has only been contacted by the Serum Institute and not Bharat Biotech which has developed Covaxin.

. France's health minister said Sunday that more than 50,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine from US-based Moderna, newly authorised in Europe, would be ready for use this week in hard-hit regions.

. The South African government will store the 1.5 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine that it will receive from India in the next few weeks at a secret place because of the risk of theft for sale at black market prices, according to a media report.

“The vaccines are a highly-rated commodity once they’re stolen and reach the black market,” Department of Health spokesperson Popo Maja told the weekly City Press on Sunday, adding that if this occurs, there is a risk that the prices of these illegally-obtained vaccines will be hiked significantly.

“There will be a central place where the consignment will be stored and from where we will distribute it to hospital and clinic pharmacies that can store it,” Maja said.

“There’s a security issue too because countries which have already begun rolling out the vaccines have warned us that there is a huge theft of it, so we may not even disclose where it is being centrally stored,” Maja said.

. The Centre on Sunday said Co-WIN, an online platform for monitoring Covid-19 vaccine delivery, shall form the foundation for the anti-coronavirus inoculation drive which shall be citizen-centric so that the vaccine is available anytime and anywhere.

Coronavirus vaccine news highlights: Dr Reddy’s submits Phase-II safety data of Sputnik V to DCGI, seeks approval for Phase-III trials

16 lakh frontline workers in Karnataka to get Covid vaccine in Phase I: CM B S Yediyurappa

The first consignment of the Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in Gujarat's Ahmedabad tomorrow morning: Gujarat Deputy CM Nitin Patel

16 lakh frontline workers in Karnataka to get Covid vaccine in Phase I: CM B S Yediyurappa

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