AstraZeneca Admits in Court of Rare Side Effect of its Covishield Vaccine

New Delhi: Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has acknowledged for the first time that its Covid vaccine “can, in very rare cases, cause TTS” (thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome). This admission was made in a legal document submitted to the High Court in February. The company stated in the document that TTS can occur even without vaccination and…

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Single-dose vaccine of Johnson & Johnson gets approval for emergency use in India

To give a boost to the fight against Covid-19 pandemic, the Government of India allowed emergency use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine in the country today. The union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed about the news through a tweet on Saturday. This is the fifth vaccine to be available in India after Covaxin, Covishield,…

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