The Department of Drug Administration (DDA) has decided to approve ‘COVISHIELD’ COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in Nepal. DDA provided the conditional permission for emergency authorisation of COVISHEILD vaccine against …
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Marking a decade since last polio case: WHO SEAR countries gear up for massive vaccination campaign – this time for COVID-19 virus
New Delhi, 13 January 2021 – On this day in 2011, WHO South-East Asia Region reported its last case of wild poliovirus from West Bengal in India. A decade later, …
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WHO issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine
WHO issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine and emphasizes need for equitable global access. The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine …
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COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC)-Eligible economies
COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC)-Eligible economies. The 92 low- and middle-income economies are eligible to have their participation in the COVAX Facility supported by the COVAX AMC. What is COVAX? …
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Principles for sharing COVID-19 Vaccine doses with COVAX
COVAX is a bold international initiative to ensure fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries regardless of wealth. The COVAX Facility (Facility) is responsible for securing the …
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What is COVAX? Why we need COVAX? What COVAX offers?
WHAT IS COVAX? COVAX is the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator COVAX is one of three pillars of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, …
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WHO recommends against the use of remdesivir in COVID-19 patients
Update: 20 November 2020 WHO has issued a conditional recommendation against the use of remdesivir in hospitalized patients, regardless of disease severity, as there is currently no evidence that remdesivir …
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Vaccines development process & Clinical trials
Preclinical phase Each vaccine under development must first undergo screenings and evaluations to determine which antigen should be used to invoke an immune response. This preclinical phase is done without …
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