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Bharat Biotech announced that COVAXIN, India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine, has been granted Emergency Use Listing by the World Health Organization (WHO). This vaccine is a whole virion-inactivated vaccine against SARS-CoV2, developed in partnership...
Bharat Biotech announces scale up of manufacturing capacity to produce ~ 700 million doses of COVAXIN annually. Manufacturing scale up has been carried out in a stepwise manner across multiple facilities at Hyderabad, and...
Bharat Biotech announced the first interim analysis of its BBV152 (COVAXIN). The whole virion inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate demonstrated an interim vaccine efficacy of 81% in its Phase 3 clinical trial. The trials involved...
The Subject Expert Committee of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) met on 1st and 2nd January, 2021 and made recommendations in respect of proposal for Restricted Emergency Approval of COVID-19 virus vaccine of...
India has crossed a landmark milestone in its eHealth journey. eSanjeevani telemedicine service of the Health Ministry has crossed 1 million (10 lakh) tele-consultations today.Telemedicine entails delivery of health services from a distance using...
Ministry of AYUSH and AIIMS have decided to initiate work on setting up a Department of Integrative Medicine at AIIMS. This was decided in a joint visit and review by Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, AYUSH...
Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY), New Delhi, is preparing to embrace the new norm of e-education and virtual learning in the post-Covid 19 scenario. A set of capacity building steps to enable...
AstraZeneca India (AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI). This MOU is aimed at digitising and driving correct awareness of Diabetes...
Urban Company (formerly UrbanClap) has launched an industry-first initiative by announcing its Mental Health Leave Policy, ahead of the World Mental Health Day. Under this employee-centric initiative, employees will be allowed to take unlimited sick leaves...
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, HDFC Bank and Apollo Hospitals have joined hands to launch The HealthyLife Programme, a holistic healthcare solution which makes healthy life accessible and affordable on Apollo’s digital platform, Apollo...
