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"Reports That Expired Covid Shots Being Given False, Misleading": Centre
Reports claiming that expired vaccines in the 15 to 18 age group are being given under national COVID-19 vaccination programme are false and misleading, the government clarified today, adding that the reports used "incomplete information".
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Covishield-Covaxin Mix Gives Results, Says Medical Body, Seeks More Study
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revealed in its study that the combination of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines, the two main vaccines of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, conducted on 18 people, has elicited better safety results.
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Singapore Among First Countries To Start Vaccinating 12-18 Year-Olds
Singapore is opening up its COVID-19 vaccination programme to adolescents from Tuesday to help contain the latest outbreak that has infected some students, and will step up testing and tracing.
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Covax Says Needs $2 Billion Additional Funding By June For Poor Countries
The Covax global vaccine-sharing programme said Thursday it needs $2.0 billion in additional funding by the beginning of June in order to boost coronavirus inoculation programmes in lower-income countries.
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Irish Ransomware Attack to Cost Health Service Tens of Millions of Euros
Ireland health service experts say a ransomware attack will cost them tens of millions of euros as they will have to rebuild the IT systems related to their healthcare services. Ireland's health service operator shut down all its IT systems on Friday to protect them from a significant ransomware attack that led to a significant disruption in diagno...
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COVID-19 Vaccination Appointment Tracker Sites and Bots Can Notify You When a Slot Opens Up Nearby
While the CoWIN registration process is simple, booking an appointment can be a stressful affair. Most of the slots show ‘booked’ or ‘appointment not available’ for as far as July, and manually navigating through dates on the CoWIN app is slow. To help people better navigate through their vaccination process, we found some sites that can se...
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Level Of Covid Infections Still Alarmingly High: Boris Johnson
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday the levels of COVID-19 infections remained "alarmingly high", adding he hoped the vaccination programme would still allow the government to open schools from March 8.
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Google to Open US Offices as COVID-19 Vaccination Centres, Spend $150 Million on Vaccine Awareness: CEO Sundar Pichai
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced via a blog post that the company’s offices in the US will be used as COVID-19 vaccination centres. Google has also pledged $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,090 crores) for programmes to promote vaccine education.
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"Reports That Expired Covid Shots Being Given False, Misleading": Centre
Reports claiming that expired vaccines in the 15 to 18 age group are being given under national COVID-19 vaccination programme are false and misleading, the government clarified today, adding that the reports used "incomplete information".
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Covishield-Covaxin Mix Gives Results, Says Medical Body, Seeks More Study
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revealed in its study that the combination of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines, the two main vaccines of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, conducted on 18 people, has elicited better safety results.
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Singapore Among First Countries To Start Vaccinating 12-18 Year-Olds
Singapore is opening up its COVID-19 vaccination programme to adolescents from Tuesday to help contain the latest outbreak that has infected some students, and will step up testing and tracing.
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Covax Says Needs $2 Billion Additional Funding By June For Poor Countries
The Covax global vaccine-sharing programme said Thursday it needs $2.0 billion in additional funding by the beginning of June in order to boost coronavirus inoculation programmes in lower-income countries.
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Irish Ransomware Attack to Cost Health Service Tens of Millions of Euros
Ireland health service experts say a ransomware attack will cost them tens of millions of euros as they will have to rebuild the IT systems related to their healthcare services. Ireland's health service operator shut down all its IT systems on Friday to protect them from a significant ransomware attack that led to a significant disruption in diagno...
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COVID-19 Vaccination Appointment Tracker Sites and Bots Can Notify You When a Slot Opens Up Nearby
While the CoWIN registration process is simple, booking an appointment can be a stressful affair. Most of the slots show ‘booked’ or ‘appointment not available’ for as far as July, and manually navigating through dates on the CoWIN app is slow. To help people better navigate through their vaccination process, we found some sites that can se...
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Level Of Covid Infections Still Alarmingly High: Boris Johnson
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday the levels of COVID-19 infections remained "alarmingly high", adding he hoped the vaccination programme would still allow the government to open schools from March 8.
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Google to Open US Offices as COVID-19 Vaccination Centres, Spend $150 Million on Vaccine Awareness: CEO Sundar Pichai
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced via a blog post that the company’s offices in the US will be used as COVID-19 vaccination centres. Google has also pledged $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,090 crores) for programmes to promote vaccine education.
