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For many parents, vaccinating their child is a shared decision, here's what can happen when parents disagreeWhen parents disagree over whether to vaccinate their child, the child may be delayed in getting vaccinated.
UK vaccine advisers say all adults to receive boostersThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said that all adults between 18-39 years old could receive shots, extending a programme...
Zydus Cadila agrees to reduce its Covid vaccine price to Rs 265 a dose, final decision soon: SourcesThe indigenously developed world's first DNA-based needle-free COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D received emergency use authorisation from the drug ...
WHO experts back extra Covid jab for people with weak immune systemsMeanwhile, US pharma giant Merck also applied for emergency use authorization of its oral anti-Covid drug in the United States, a major ste...
India records greatest increase in number of children not receiving first dose of DTP-1 vaccine in 2020: UNData from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN children's agency UNICEF showed that 23 million children missed out on basic child...
Pune lab NCCS gets government nod to approve Covid-19 vaccinesWith the government adding more vaccines, there is an unprecedented pressure on CDL, which has traditionally received 7,000 batches of immu...
Vaccinating children against COVID not priority from WHO perspective: Vaccines expertDr Kate O'Brien says vaccinating children “is not a priority from a WHO perspective”, even as increasing numbers of rich countries authoris...
Covid-19 vaccination: High caseload states plan to prioritise those with illnessesThe Centre had recently liberalised the Covid-19 immunisation programme by letting go off 50% vaccines from its control to states and priva...
Taking Stock: India's Covid vaccine supplies exceed usageHealth ministry data on vaccine supplies between January 16 and February 9 shows that so far only 31.45% of Covishield and 11.75% of Covaxi...
COVID-19: Of those vaccinated, 0.18 pc were adverse events, says governmentAddressing a press conference, NITI Aayog member (Health) V K Paul said concerns about adverse effects and serious problems post immunisati...
No 'serious or severe' adverse effect post COVID-19 immunisation report so far: GovernmentIn a press conference, additional secretary in the health ministry Manohar Agnani said the man from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh died due to ...
Govt defers national polio immunisation programmeThe Union Health Ministry has communicated the decision to defer the polio immunisation programme to all states through a letter on January...
Maharashtra: COVID-19 vaccine dry run carried out in four districtsSpecific teams were formed for various tasks by the district administrations and activities like uploading of dummy beneficiary data, sessi...
Dry run of COVID-19 vaccination concludes in 2 select Punjab districtsThe districts of Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahr) had been selected for the dry run, aimed at testing the laid out mech...
60+ people account for 53% of Covid-19 deaths, says govtThe Covid-19 case fatality rate is highest at 24.6% among those above 60 with pre-existing health conditions, even as people in this age gr...
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...
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...