The company said last week that it was diligently working with the WHO to obtain Emergency Use Listing (EUL) at the earliest adding it is not “appropriate to speculate” on the regulatory approval process and the timelines.
In its announcement on Wednesday, the NIH said that researchers will measure the development and durability of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in women vaccinated during pregnancy or the first two postpartum months.
In the latest case, 70-year-old Chandradeep Narayan Singh, a resident of Kandra village under Kandra police station, had taken the first dose on Saturday at the Gamharia health centre. The wife of the deceased, Shankari Devi, said her husband suffered complications a day after taking the vaccine and was admitted to the Tata Main Hospital (TMH) in East Singhbhum district on Sunday. He died on Monday while undergoing treatment.
Fauci in August had said he was sceptical of the vaccine after Russia swiftly approved it.
The U.S. study comprised 30,000 volunteers, 20,000 of whom were given the vaccine while the rest got dummy shots. The results were announed Monday.
According to the Finnish Medicines Agency (Fimea), two cerebral venous thrombosis have been reported in Finland 4-10 days after receiving the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.
WHO encourages all nations to closely monitor adverse effects of any vaccine in use
The 88-page document details information to guide national, state and district level communication activities to enable information about Covid-19 vaccines and vaccination process reaches all people, across all states in the country.
In recent years a number of websites providing "unbalanced, misleading, and alarming" vaccine safety information have been established, prompting fear, the WHO said.
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