COVISHIELD

Assam's Silchar Medical College and Hospital witnessed a total of 1,000 doses of spoiled 'Covishield' vaccines due to extreme cold storage temperatures. While the ideal storage temperature for the vaccine is 2-8°C, the temperature of the storage facility at SMCH slumped to minus 5-6°C, freezing the vaccines. Instigating a probe into the matter, the state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the lapses might have occurred probably due to… read-more

After the government approved COVID Vaccine consignment, Maldives will become the first country to be aided by India's Covishield vaccine. Reportedly, the consignment, sufficient for the frontline workers and senior citizens of Maldives, will land at Velana International Airport, Malé in an Air-India flight on January 20. However, the Island is currently the largest COVID-19 assistance recipient in India's neighbourhood including medical… read-more

In a letter addressed to the medical superintendent, the resident doctors of Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital have expressed their apprehension towards Bharat Biotech's Covaxin due to inadequate trial. The doctors instead entreated to use the Serum Institute of India's Covishield vaccine. The decision drew criticism as the panel approved just a day after asking Bharat Biotech to provide more evidence. Reportedly, Covaxin is in its Phase-III… read-more

Taking a step ahead towards the COVID-19 vaccination, the Centre has ordered the first set of 11 million doses of Serum Institute of India's 'Covishield' vaccine. Ordered at the cost of Rs 200 per dose, the doses are expected to vaccinate around 10 million frontline workers nation-wide. Reportedly, the Union will afford the vaccination cost for 30 million workers without charging the states. The government will roll-out the mass vaccination… read-more

The Telangana government plans to administer Oxford's Covishield and India's Covaxin to about three crore people in one month. Making arrangements, the government cleared that 1.5 crore doses will be stored at the state’s vaccination centre and another 1.5 crore doses at ten other locations. Informing about the 1crore storage capacity at the hospitals, the state health minister claimed that it has trained personnel to administer vaccine to 10… read-more