US to lift all travel restrictions for fully vaccinated incoming foreign nationals from November 8But fully vaccinated travellers will still continue to be required to show a pre-departure negative test taken within three days of travel ...
05 Nov, 2021, 04.56 PM IST
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine may soon get regulatory approval in IndiaModerna has also informed that the US Government has agreed to donate a certain number of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine through COV...
29 Jun, 2021, 02.20 PM IST
Serum Institute of India produces over 10 crore doses of Covishield in JuneIndia's Covid-19 inoculation drive has picked up pace under the new phase of universalisation of Covid-19 vaccination that commenced on Jun...
27 Jun, 2021, 06.23 PM IST
States to decide private hospital doses under new vaccine procurement policyGirdhar Gyani, director general, Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI), said that according to new guidelines, state governments...
15 Jun, 2021, 07.29 AM IST
What happens if you get fully vaccinated and develop Covid symptoms?The recent studies show vaccinated people face very little risk of serious disease.
03 Jun, 2021, 05.20 PM IST
Rethink policy on door-to-door COVID vaccination: HC to CentreA division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni reiterated that the Centre needs to rethink its policy that says ...
20 May, 2021, 05.26 PM IST
Private companies free to buy vaccines at market price for employeesAlong with the decision to make all adults eligible for vaccination from May 1, the government has allowed private companies, hospital chai...
22 Apr, 2021, 08.50 AM IST
Facebook, Twitter must do more to stop Covid-19 anti-vaxxers: US statesIn a letter to Facebook CEO and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the Democratic attorneys general said “anti-vaxxers” lacking medical expertise and...
26 Mar, 2021, 12.01 AM IST
Sundar Pichai says Google to open US office space as vaccination centres“Today we’re announcing that we'll be opening up Google spaces to serve as mass vaccination sites, committing more than $150 million to pro...
26 Jan, 2021, 08.29 AM IST
View: For an effective vaccination plan with private sector involvement, GoI needs a regulatory frameworkThe 2020 Economic Survey states that India’s manufacturing and services sectors employ 27.5 crore. Of these, about 6.4 crore work in the or...
17 Jan, 2021, 11.41 PM IST
Vaccine rollout: Government framing norms to manage tricky issuesThe health and family welfare ministry has already released standard operating procedures to be followed at vaccination centres, number of ...
09 Jan, 2021, 12.29 AM IST
Karnataka to receive 13.90 lakh vaccine vials in a couple of days: Health MinisterKarnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Friday said the state is expected to receive 13,90,000 vials of vaccine against COVID-19 in a day o...
08 Jan, 2021, 12.44 PM IST
Fight against COVID-19 kept health ministry on its toes in 2020The first case of coronavirus infection in the country was recorded on January 30 in Kerala and the first death on March 10 in Karnataka. B...
30 Dec, 2020, 03.35 PM IST
50% efficacy level for approval of Covid-19 vaccines not enough: ExpertsThe criterion was declared even before an Indian Council of Medical Research taskforce on Covid-19 could take up the matter. “Has this been...
24 Sep, 2020, 12.17 AM IST
To get approval in India, vaccines must work in at least 50% casesThe vaccine that will go for approval must elicit superior immune responses compared to no vaccination against Covid-19, the guidelines sai...
21 Sep, 2020, 11.46 PM IST
Domestic vaccine makers wait for procurement commitment from government for Covid-19 vaccinesSome leading vaccine companies have also asked the government to foot the bill for their ‘fill and finish’ capacities (for vials and glass ...
05 Aug, 2020, 10.04 PM IST
AIIMS, Vizag Hospital yet to approve trials of locally-made Covid vaccineThe ethics committee of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi has found discrepancies in the protocol submitted for tria...
07 Jul, 2020, 08.31 AM IST