-ANI/ NDTV.com "As expected, T cell immunity holding up better against #Omicron. This will protect us against severe disease. Please get vaccinated if you have not," said WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan in a tweet Geneva: Emphasising that the Omicron variant is infecting both vaccinated and unvaccinated people worldwide, WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has said that it appears that Vaccines are still proving to be effective because even though...
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Omicron drives Indians, especially health workers, to quietly get booster from pvt hospitals -Mohana Basu and Anusha Ravi Sood
-ThePrint.in Centre is yet to recommend booster dose for Covid vaccine & CoWin neither allows registration for third dose nor issues certificate for it. But that appears to be no impediment for some. New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Fear of a drop in antibody level six months after receiving the second vaccine dose, and rising concern about the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, have pushed people in some parts of the country...
More »Second jab overdue for 19 lakh, figures fox health officials -Subhajoy Roy
-The Telegraph Those who have crossed the maximum advised gap between two doses of Covid Vaccines are counted in the list of overdue doses, said another health department official There are more than 19 lakh people in Bengal who have not taken their second doses despite the due dates to take them getting over. Some of them have claimed that they took two doses at separate centres. But the authorities are not asking for...
More »TRIPS Waiver Proposal: Big Pharma Steering Discourse Away From Patent Monopoly -Richa Chintan
-Newsclick.in It appears the stage is being set to scuttle India and South Africa’s IP waiver proposal with regard to Covid Vaccines and technology ahead of the 12th WTO Ministerial this month-end. At various global fora, Big Pharma and rich countries have been steadfastly pushing the focus toward supply-side bottlenecks of Vaccines and unequal distribution of doses in a bid to steer the discourse away from the more contentious issue of patents...
More »No data on private vaccine procurement: Health Ministry -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu ‘Private hospitals procure Vaccines directly from manufacturers, so no data available’ The Health Ministry says it does not know how many COVID-19 Vaccines were procured by private players, nor does it have separate data on how many vaccine doses were administered by private hospitals and service providers, according to its response to a Right to Information request filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd). Despite the fact that the government had reserved...
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