India has accelerated the production of Covid booster jabs in the wake of the sudden surge in cases, reportedly due to a new variant of Omicron, called XBB.1.16.

India accelerates production of Covid vaccine booster shots as daily cases cross 10k

Amid the global spread of the Omicron mutant variant, Chile is all set to offer a fourth COVID-19 vaccination dose for people at high-risk.

Chile to offer a fourth COVID-19 shot for people at high-risk amid Omicron spread

In a first, a person in Israel has been vaccinated with a fourth coronavirus vaccine. This was done as a part of the study to see if the country will go ahead and approve the measure in a bid to curb the growing wave of Covid infections triggered by the Omicron variant.

In a study, Israel vaccinates people with fourth vaccine dose for the first time

Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the US, Anthony Fauci in an interview with WCBS Newsradio 880 said that it is “too premature” on part of the US to discuss a fourth Covid vaccine dose.

'Too premature' to discuss a fourth Covid vaccine dose, says Fauci

On October 21 (Thursday), overall coverage for India's COVID-19 vaccination drive exceeded the 1 billion mark, marking a watershed moment. According to the CoWIN site, the digital platform used to manage immunisation records, a total of 1 billion vaccination doses had been provided to eligible recipients at 9:47 am today.

India crosses historic one billion COVID-19 vaccine milestone

India will have a vaccine capacity of 28 crore doses this month, which includes 22 crore Serum Institute of India's Covishield and 6 crore doses of Bharat Biotech Biotech's Covaxin and production of 60 lakh Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D doses are also ready, said government sources.

India to procure over 30 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses per month by January: Sources

A total of 86,023 beneficiaries in the age group of 18-44 years received their first dose of COVID vaccine across 11 states on May 1, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.

Phase-3 vaccination: Over 86,000 received first dose on May 1 in India

Half of all adults in Britain have now received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, becoming the world's first major economy to hit that milestone. Health minister Matt Hancock said on Twitter, the figure had been reached after a record 660,276 shots were administered on Friday.

Britain hits milestone as half of all adults get first vaccine dose

The drug, called Zolgensma and manufactured by Novartis Gene Therapies costs ₹18 crore (£1.79 million) per dose, according to the official statement UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

Zolgensma: World's most expensive drug that costs ₹18 crore a dose

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