NHS England offers Covid booster: Last chance for adults under 50 to get booster jabNHS England offers Covid booster shot to adults under 50 in England will culminate in just over a week. If they haven't already, it is thei...
04 Feb, 2023, 06.13 PM 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
Time to 'think about mandatory vaccination': European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen"My personal position is... I think it is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now," she told a media conference, underli...
01 Dec, 2021, 09.50 PM IST
If citizen loses job due to vaccine administered, is State not duty bound to redress it? Kerala HC poser to CentreJustice P V Kunhikrishnan on Tuesday said that the court was not blaming the Centre, but when a citizen stands to lose his employment or hi...
16 Nov, 2021, 01.05 PM IST
Centre's vaccination scheme has created 2 classes of citizens in India: Kerala HC"Due to the State-sponsored vaccination scheme, there are two types of citizens in the country - those who received COVAXIN and those who g...
02 Nov, 2021, 01.16 PM 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 vaccines for kids? Strategies around the worldEarlier, India's Bharat Biotech, which completed the Phase 2/3 trials of COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin for use in children under 18 years of age...
08 Oct, 2021, 11.01 PM IST
Useful protection or not warranted? Third jab debate ragesRecently, UK's health regulator has approved Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines for booster doses against Covid-19, even as the country's deci...
10 Sep, 2021, 04.29 PM IST
West Bengal govt thinking about vaccinating children: Mamata BanerjeeWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said 12 lakh people in Bengal got their COVID jabs on Tuesday and in the urban areas 75 per cent...
01 Sep, 2021, 05.09 PM IST
No plan to change dosage interval for Covishield for now, says CentreThe government on Thursday said that there was no plan to reduce the dose gap for Covishield as news reports suggested that the 84-day inte...
27 Aug, 2021, 07.11 AM IST
If giving 3rd jab is at others expense, so is priority in vaccination: Kerala HC to Centre, state govtThe observation by Justice P B Suresh Kumar came after the central and state governments expressed their reservations in granting a third j...
10 Aug, 2021, 05.37 PM IST
‘Hello, So areYou Vaccinated?’As we slowly become more sociable and step out with caution en mask, looking left and right before crossing public spaces like never before...
09 Aug, 2021, 11.26 PM IST
Delayed doses of AstraZeneca jab boost immunity: Oxford University studyA study by Oxford University has found that delayed second and third doses of the AstraZeneca jab can help boost immunity against COvid-19....
28 Jun, 2021, 05.40 PM IST
Taking the jab to where India livesPolitical and religious leaders, celebrities, social media influencers, television anchors, everyone must be roped in to evangelise the vac...
16 May, 2021, 10.46 PM IST
Confusion amid India Inc over inoculation of temporary workersA senior executive in the telecom industry said while it is possible for companies which have factories and other large facilities to creat...
29 Apr, 2021, 08.27 AM IST
Russia's Sputnik gets India nod, Dr Reddy’s can now import and sell itThe Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) on Monday took up the application of Dr Reddy...
13 Apr, 2021, 09.46 AM IST
Covid-19: More than 100 million vaccinatedNone of the world's 29 poorest countries has formally started mass vaccination drives, while the richest nations have given more than two-t...
02 Feb, 2021, 03.59 PM IST