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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
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23541. Confident to get more COVID-19 vaccine doses from India, says Nepal envoy
- Nepal is very grateful to the Indian government for gifting 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the country's envoy Nilamber Acharya said , adding that the Himalayan nation is "confident" of getting more doses of the vaccine.
- Nepal with a population of nearly 30 million has turned out to India for help to procure vaccines as it plans to inoculate nearly 75 per cent of its population.The Government of Nepal, on January 15, approved the use of Covishield developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) for emergency use.
- In the first phase of its inoculation drive, the Nepal government has planned to vaccinate a total of 450,000 frontline workers of various fields with two doses of Covishield vaccine to each.
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23542. Vaccine Maitri: South Africa receives 1st consignment of Made-in-India Covid-19 vaccine
- Ramaphosa also said that a further nine million doses would come from Johnson and Johnson, which has contracted Aspen, one of the major pharmaceutical companies in South Africa, to manufacture these vaccines in the country.
- “In addition to the one million Covishield doses we received today, we expect another 500,000 doses from the Serum Institute of India to arrive later in February,” he said. “We have secured 12 million doses in total from the global COVAX facility, which has indicated that it will release approximately two million doses by March.
- South Africa has secured millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses from different suppliers and expects more to come, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his televised address
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23543. Maldives' foreign minister receives made in India vaccine
- India has supplied to the Maldives 100,000 doses of CoviShield (Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine) manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India.
- Shahid shared a video in which he is being administered with the first of the two vaccine shots. His Tweet reads, "Today I received the #COVID19 vaccine. Govt of Maldives begins #COVID19 vaccination for all in #Maldives with no discrimination based on nationality.
- India launched the Vaccine Maitri initiative on January 20 to gift COVID-19 vaccines to other countries. Earlier, India supplied corona vaccines to neighbouring countries Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh under the Neighbourhood First policy.
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23544. Kuwait, Oman get Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines produced in India
- Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that 200,000 doses of the vaccine manufactured at the Serum Institute of India (SII) arrived in the country at dawn.
- On Sunday, Oman received 100,000 doses of the Oxford Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India.
- In a press statement carried by the Kuwait News Agency, assistant undersecretary at Kuwait’s drug and food control affairs Dr. Abdullah Al-Bader has said that the ministry is closely monitoring international developments concerning the vaccines, adding that the department would cooperate with various producing companies to get the jabs after ensuring their safety and efficacy.
23545. Why is India called the world’s pharmacy? Here are 160 million reasons
- In February, according to documents seen by HT, India intends to fly 60 million doses to friendly countries across the world, right from Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to Nauru, the world’s smallest island nation near Australia. In March, HT learned that India hopes to fly out nearly 80 million doses. Nearly half of the 160 million doses would be routed through Unicef.
- India rolled out its domestic Covid-19 vaccination programme on January 16 and almost simultaneously, started sending supplies to neighbouring countries and others, both as gifts and on a commercial basis.
- An The 30 countries that have formally asked India for vaccine include Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Serbia, Guyana (CARICOM), Egypt, Morocco, Maldives, Mauritius, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Iran, Brazil, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St Kitts and Nevis, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini and Kenya," a top government official said.
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23546. ‘Vaccine wars’ between the EU and the UK to affect India
- An EU jab shortage will put pressure on India to make up the difference
- The EU has told the UK that if AstraZeneca cannot supply the contracted number of doses from its plants in Europe, it is duty bound to meet the shortfall from its manufacturing facilities in Britain.
- WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “vaccine nationalism” could lead to a “protracted recovery”. He added that vaccine hoarding would “keep the pandemic burning and... slow global economic recovery” in addition to being a “catastrophic moral failure” that could further widen global inequality.
23547. India Leads Way As EU Restricts AstraZeneca Vaccine Export Amid Fears Of 'Vaccine Nationalism'
- British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca, which co-developed the Covid-19 vaccine with Oxford University has found itself entangled in a mess that also involves Brexit.
- AstraZeneca said it can only deliver a fraction of its vaccine doses promised to the EU and Britain because of production problems, but both sides are demanding their pledges are met.
- The EU had threatened to restrict vaccine exports to Northern Ireland by overriding part of the Brexit deal with Britain
23548. India May Become The First Buyer Of S-500 Anti-Aircraft Missile System: Russian Deputy PM Borisov
- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov has indicated that India may be the first foreign buyer of its most advanced S-500 ‘Prometei’ anti-aircraft missile system.
- The S-500 ‘Prometei’ anti-aircraft missile system is the most advanced Russian mobile service to air system and was put into service earlier this year. In 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed interest in buying the S-500 units.
- The $5.5 billion deal for five S-400 systems had become a thorn in the growing US-India partnership, with the latter running the risk of facing the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) sanctions.
23549. 5 Indian jewellery brands in top 100 luxury cos' list: Report
- top 100 luxury goods companies generated $252 billion in revenue globally, despite the challenges of 2020 when most firms concentrated their efforts on sustaining their businesses.
- Tata Group's Titan Company jumped three places on the top 100 'Global Powers of Luxury Goods' list to rank 22 and was among the 20 fastest-growing luxury goods companies.
- The top 10 luxury brands featured in the list included leading firms from Europe, the Middle East and Africa region
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23550. Tata doubles down on beauty business as startups blaze the trail
- Indian conglomerate Tata Group plans to reclaim ground in the beauty business it exited 23 years ago, with the local market for cosmetics forecast to be worth $20 billion by 2025.
- The startup, that’s now a $13 billion company after a blockbuster IPO, helped millennial and Gen-Z consumers buy high-end beauty brands as well as access tutorials and testimonials from social media influencers.
- The revenue from beauty, footwear and underwear category is just about $100 million for Trent while the market is of about $30 billion now, according to data provided by the company.