Current UK covid-19 wave driven by elderly over 70s? Read here to knowNHS England will provide booster vaccination invitations through email, post, and text to six million eligible people next week who are eit...
08 Oct, 2022, 04.28 PM IST
UK approves Pfizer bivalent Covid vaccine ahead of booster driveThe UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved the Pfizer jab as a booster for those aged 12 and over after a "...
03 Sep, 2022, 05.46 PM IST
SII is working on an Omicron-specific vaccine, may launch it by the end of this year: ReportSII Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla told NDTV that the vaccine is being developed in collaboration with Novavax. Poonawalla further...
15 Aug, 2022, 08.25 PM IST
Only 50% of eligible citizens in US have taken second Covid-19 booster jabUSA began supplying its Covid Booster dose in the country in December last year. However, the current statistics reveal that only half of t...
12 Aug, 2022, 06.54 PM IST
Corbevax may soon get nod to be used as fresh boosterIndia's drug regulator on Saturday granted approval to Hyderabad-based Biological E's Covid-19 vaccine Corbevax to be allowed as a booster ...
07 Jun, 2022, 12.01 AM IST
Shakti Kapoor gets Covid booster shot, followed by a musical evening with friendsFor the evening with friend, the actor was filmed playing his guitar.
15 Jan, 2022, 03.30 PM IST
Repeated Covid boosters not a viable strategy: WHO"A vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable," ...
11 Jan, 2022, 10.52 PM IST
Government may go for mixing vaccines for booster doses; move based on a soon-to-be-released study"One could give an additional dose of the same vaccine but the results aren't as good as when the jabs are mixed," a senior government offi...
27 Dec, 2021, 11.11 AM IST
Centre has accepted my suggestion for Covid vaccine booster dose: Rahul Gandhi"The central government has accepted my suggestion for a booster dose -- this is a right step. The protection of vaccines and booster shots...
26 Dec, 2021, 10.34 AM IST
No country can boost its way out of pandemic: WHO chief"Blanket booster programmes are likely to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than ending it, by diverting supply to countries that alrea...
23 Dec, 2021, 12.36 PM IST
UK opens up COVID boosters to all over 30s in Omicron fightOn Saturday, the UK recorded another 54,073 COVID-19 infections, including 633 of the Omicron variant.
12 Dec, 2021, 05.02 PM IST
After recommending booster dose for 40+, INSACOG says more experiments neededThe recommendations and suggestions regarding vaccines, schedule, and roll out come under the expressed mandate of NTAGI and the NEGVAC, sa...
05 Dec, 2021, 03.57 PM IST
WHO to review booster need as Omicron spreadsGroup of Experts meeting on December 7 to discuss the need for booster shots.
05 Dec, 2021, 06.37 AM IST
Bookings open for UK's expanded COVID booster vaccinesThe UK's health service will open up for over-40s to book in their COVID-19 booster vaccine dose from Monday, as the UK government warned t...
21 Nov, 2021, 04.44 PM IST
Covid-19: Growing demand for booster shots amid soon-to-expire vaccinesThe issue was raised recently in the National Covid Task Force by its member Dr Subhash Salunkhe, who is of the view that those responsible...
08 Nov, 2021, 10.09 AM IST
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...
11 Oct, 2021, 09.15 PM IST
COVID: vaccine boosters are likely to increase protection against variants - new researchIn particular, past infection plus two doses of vaccine increased the chances of neutralising the beta and gamma variants. The level of neu...
28 Aug, 2021, 09.46 AM IST