10.05 am An official from Brazil’s health ministry says he informed President Jair Bolsonaro about being pressurised to buy Bharat Biotec...
10.05 am An official from Brazil’s health ministry says he informed President Jair Bolsonaro about being pressurised to buy Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, Reuters reports.
Federal prosecutors have begun an investigation into alleged irregularities in the government’s contract with Bharat Biotech to buy 20 million or 2 crore doses of the vaccine.
10 am: Flights from Indonesia will not be allowed to enter Hong Kong from Friday, Reuters reports. The number of imported cases from Indonesia has went past the limit set by Hong Kong.
9.55 am: After an inspection, the World Health Organization flags concerns related to data integrity, quality control and testing at a facility manufacturing Sputnik V vaccine in Ufa in Russia, AFP reports.
9.49 am: Bharatiya Janata Party MPs walked out of a parliamentary panel meeting on vaccination on Wednesday as opposition leaders raised questions about the Centre’s inoculation policy, say reports.
9.46 am: The Assam government asks its departments to find out if frontline employees are vaccinated before paying them salaries from June, NDTV reports.
9.30 am: India reports 54,069 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of infections since the outbreak of the pandemic to 3,00,82,778. The country’s toll rises by 1,321 to 3,91,981.
India’s tally of active cases stands at 6,27,057, while the number of recoveries reach 2,90,63,740.
9.20 am: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says her government...
