Police: Seven arrested for cheating Serum Institute of India of Rs 1 crore
• 2 years agoThe Cyber Unit of Pune City police on Friday arrested three accused involved in the case
India's first vaccine against cervical cancer to be launched on 1 September
• 3 years agoThe Serum Institute of India and the Department of Biotechnology are set to launch India's first indigenously developed Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against cervical cancer on 1 September, official sources said.
US envoy, Novavax CEO, laud India's role in battling COVID pandemic
• 3 years agoA US delegation comprising Chargé D'Affaires Patricia Lacina, US Consul General in Mumbai Mike Hankey, CEO of Novavax Inc Stanley C Erck, and others visited SII headquarters in Pune and met its CEO Adar Poonawalla to celebrate 75 years of the US-India bilateral partnership
200 crore vaccinations: How India under Narendra Modi scripted Covid success story
Sanju Verma • 3 years agoThe country crossed a record 200 crore Covid-19 vaccinations on 17 July 2022 within barely 18 months of launching this exercise on 16 January last year
Serum Institute of India seeks nod to export 32.4 lakh doses of its COVID vaccine Covovax to US
• 3 years agoIn August 2020, the US-based vaccine maker Novavax Inc had announced a licence agreement with SII for the development and commercialisation of NVX-CoV2373, its COVID-19 vaccine candidate
Day after DCGI's nod, SII seeks inclusion of Covovax in COVID-19 immunisation programme
• 3 years agoSerum Institute of India has written to the Centre seeking the inclusion of Covovax in the national COVID-19 vaccination programme in the interest of public health, official sources said on Wednesday.
Govt panel recommends emergency approval for SII's Covovax for 7-11 year olds
• 3 years agoThe recommendation has been sent to Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for final approval
SII's COVID-19 vaccine Covovax now available for children in India: Adar Poonawalla
• 3 years agoSII's CEO Adar Poonawalla said the vaccine is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'vision of providing yet another vaccine to protect our children'
Proud to say, I have the Indian jab in my arms and it did me good: Boris Johnson thanks India
Fp Staff • 3 years agoUK PM Boris Johnson, who is on a two-day visit in India, thanks Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a grand welcome in his home-state Gujarat on Thursday
Adar Poonawalla warns against return to business-as-usual approach
• 3 years agoHe pointed out that there is rising vaccine fatigue among the public as the main reason for the low off-take of the vaccines even after the firm has massively slashed the price from Rs 600 to Rs 225 a dose