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The year begins on a hopeful note, unlike the last one, with a number of vaccines made available against COVID-19. Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has, in December last year, granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to yet another vaccine, CORBEVAX, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a second Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for Novavax NVX-CoV2373, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by American pharma giant Novavax Inc. NVX-CoV2373 is listed as Nuvaxovid and is the 10th COVID-19 vaccine to have been ...

Credit: Freepik SARS Cov-2 Variants, Vaccines and Breakthrough Infections There is no better way to protect ourselves from COVID-19 and to reduce the spread of the infection rate than to vaccinate ourselves. COVID-19 vaccines have significantly reduced severe infections, deaths ...

Credit: Reuters As part of expanding its vaccine basket, India has given Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) to the single-dose vaccine developed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Belgium based subsidiary of the global major Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson is the ...

The terms immunisation, vaccination and inoculation have become a part of our day-to-day vocabulary since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019. Often times these words are used interchangeably, but are they the same? Let's go to the ...