The government of India announced last month that the precautionary or the booster Covid-19 vaccine dose will be given to healthcare and fr...

Several large companies including Tata Steel, Vedanta, Lupin, ITC, Panasonic and Mindtree are working on plans to organise vaccination driv...

In Delhi, where daily cases have registered a record surge in the last few days, vaccination centres at Fortis hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hosp...

The Drugs Controller General of India granted emergency use authorisation to indigenously-developed Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for children a...

Children aged between 15 to 18 years can register online on CoWin from January 1 or can register onsite at the vaccination centres to recei...

On vaccination of children, the guidelines said, "For such beneficiaries, option for vaccination would only be available for Covaxin as thi...

In a televised address on December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country would begin administering 'precautionary doses' to tho...

The government is expected to come out with guidelines for vaccinating children next week.

ZyCoV-D is the first DNA plasmid vaccine in the world , developed indigenously by the company against the Covid-19 virus.

The list is expected to include children with haematological, neurological, cardiac, liver, gastrointestinal, rheumatic, cancer, respirator...

Government data shows that for children, hospitalisation in case of Covid 19 was extremely uncommon. It was also seen that children were mo...

The guidelines also state that all schools should sanitise every classroom before re-opening of schools, while directing that only vaccinat...

Children over the age of 12 with underlying medical conditions are likely to be vaccinated first, while healthy kids are unlikely to get ja...

While it gave the go-ahead for lactating women, the health ministry currently does not recommend vaccinations for pregnant women, though th...

The opposition parties claimed that the new guidelines for vaccination were issued after the Supreme Court questioned the Centre's policy o...

As per health ministry statistics, there are 350 districts that have less than 5% test positivity, 145 districts with 5-10% positivity and ...

Talking about vaccine wastage, Agarwal said Covishield vaccine wastage reduced from 8 percent on March 1 to one percent now while Covaxin w...