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On 20 August 2021, India granted emergency authorization to Zydus Cadila's vaccine ZyCoV-D, the world's first DNA plasmid-based COVID-19 vaccine, for patients 12 and older. India granted emergency use approval to the world's first DNA based COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by for adults and children aged 12 years and above. The vaccine is ...
Vaccine Maitri ("Vaccine Friendship") [1] is a humanitarian initiative undertaken by the Indian government to provide COVID-19 vaccines to countries around the world. [2] The government started providing vaccines from 20 January 2021. As of 21 February 2022, India had delivered around 16.29 crore (162.9 million) doses of vaccines to 96 ...
COVID-19 vaccine distribution by country [1]; Location Vaccinated [a] Percent [b]; World [c] [d]: 5,645,247,500 70.70% China [e]: 1,318,026,800 92.48% India ...
Current events; Random article; ... Below is the list of COVID-19 vaccination status by country. ... India: COVID-19 vaccination in India:
The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported on 30 January 2020 in three towns of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Lockdowns were announced in Kerala on 23 March, and in the rest of the country on 25 March.
On 3 November 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) validated the vaccine for emergency use, as the first Indian-developed covid vaccine to be approved. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By 31 January 2022, Covaxin had been granted emergency use approval in 13 countries.
Undercounting of cases and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in India is not unique to the country. [ 26 ] [ 19 ] Journalists, [ 27 ] mathematicians, [ 11 ] epidemiologists, [ 28 ] statisticians, and scientists have attempted, [ 29 ] according to their expertise, to arrive at a truer number of the actual cases and deaths.
On 21 February 2022, Drugs Controller General of India granted approval to Biological E's COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax, that can be used for children between 12 and 18 years of age. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 21 October 2021, India completed administering of one billion Covid vaccines in the country.