Covid Vaccines: Sound thinking on the moveIncreasing vaccine supplies has to address increasing the supplies of vaccine ingredients. The government must fund these projects, under i...
20 Apr, 2021, 11.59 AM IST
Sonu Sood tests positive for Covid 10 days after receiving first dose of vaccineThe actor is also the brand ambassador for Punjab's coronavirus vaccination programme.
17 Apr, 2021, 03.13 PM IST
SII seeks Government's nod to give 50 lakh Covishield doses to UK, says won't affect India's vaccination driveIn a communique to Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Tuesday, the Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at the Pune-based Se...
23 Mar, 2021, 08.32 PM IST
Pakistan to get 2.8 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses from COVAXPakistan this month started the anti-coronavirus vaccination drive with 500,000 doses of Sinopharm's vaccine donated by its ally China.
19 Feb, 2021, 02.35 PM IST
Highly contagious British coronavirus variant found in Sri Lanka for the first timeIt was the third variant of coronavirus to be detected in the country, he said, mentioning four different locations from where samples have...
12 Feb, 2021, 04.09 PM IST
Oxford/AstraZeneca jab effective against UK Covid variant, finds studyOxford University scientists who developed the ChAdOx1-nCoV19 vaccine have found that it remains effective against at least one of the new ...
07 Feb, 2021, 04.22 PM IST
Pakistan says China's Sinopharm vaccine not effective for people over 60 yearsChina has said that it is currently conducting field trials for 16 vaccines, while it has so far granted conditional approval to Sinopharm,...
04 Feb, 2021, 10.33 PM IST
US to join global coronavirus vaccine programmeFauci said the United States would support the "ACT Accelerator" - an umbrella effort including COVAX that also focuses on distributing dia...
21 Jan, 2021, 03.40 PM IST
Sanitation worker becomes first person to get COVID vaccine in AIIMS; Vardhan calls it historic dayMore than one crore cases and 1.5 lakh fatalities later, India took its first steps out of the pandemic with shots of the Covishield and Co...
16 Jan, 2021, 08.15 PM IST
COVID-19 vaccines 'Sanjivani' in fight against pandemic: Health Minister Harsh VardhanUnion Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday described the COVID-19 vaccines as 'Sanjivani' in the fight against the infectious disease ...
16 Jan, 2021, 02.53 PM IST
UK starts mass coronavirus vaccination programmeThe first patients in line on what has been dubbed "V-Day" -- the over-80s, care home workers and at-risk frontline health and social care ...
08 Dec, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
COVID-19: Johns Hopkins, IIHMR University to offer online courses on 'vaccine economics'According to IIHMR University, the courses have already received 400 applications, out of which 230 participants from the field of immunisa...
05 Nov, 2020, 01.20 PM IST
Russia submits application to WHO for accelerated registration, prequalification of Sputnik V vaccineThe Prequalification of Medicines Programme is a United Nations programme managed by WHO. It is the only global medicines quality assurance...
27 Oct, 2020, 08.27 PM IST
Arvind Kejriwal pitches for free COVID-19 vaccine throughout IndiaA debate has started on whether the COVID-19 vaccine, which is yet to materialise, should be made available to people for free, with the Bh...
24 Oct, 2020, 03.54 PM IST
Government plans special immunisation programme for COVID-19 vaccineThis special COVID-19 immunisation programme would run in parallel with the Universal Immunisation Programme, but will use its processes, t...
23 Oct, 2020, 04.23 PM IST
Russia not world's first to develop coronavirus vaccine: Kiran Mazumdar-ShawThe world has not seen any data on Phase 1 or 2 clinical trials conducted by Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute, the Executive Chairp...
14 Aug, 2020, 09.29 AM IST
Sanofi joins hands with US govt to expedite development of coronavirus vaccineAs part of the initiative, the company said it will collaborate with Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the ...
19 Feb, 2020, 03.59 PM IST