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
Serum Institute gets USFDA nod to export Novavax covid jab to USThe USFDA approval makes SII - the first Indian vaccine maker to export vaccines to the US market, a testimony to the company's abilities t...
15 Jul, 2022, 01.06 PM IST
SII's Covid jab Covovax gets DCGI's nod for emergency use in children aged 7-11 yearsThe DCGI's nod came after the subject expert committee on COVID-19 of the CSDCO last week recommended granting emergency use authorisation ...
28 Jun, 2022, 10.47 PM IST
WTO working on limited IPR waiver for Covid jabsIndia and South Africa had in 2020 proposed a comprehensive waiver of certain provisions of copyrights, industrial designs, patents and pro...
17 Mar, 2022, 06.41 AM IST
Opposition spreads rumours against Covid vaccines, people ignored them: PM ModiThe prime minister said the Union Budget is going to economically benefit farmers and other sections of the society in UP.
04 Feb, 2022, 03.24 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
Lakshadweep close to achieving full COVID-19 vaccination coverageAround 78.7 per cent of India's adult population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, with nine states and union territories...
06 Nov, 2021, 06.17 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
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
Pfizer Covid jab's side effects in 12-15-year-olds mild: StudyThe side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab against Covid-19 are likely to be mild to moderate and clear up quickly in 12-15 year olds at h...
27 Aug, 2021, 01.49 PM IST
Certificate to be available for those that get Covid jab abroad: Govt officialCurrently, those that have received a single jab or have been completely vaccinated abroad cannot receive such a certificate. However, off ...
11 Aug, 2021, 12.34 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
Over 1 crore vaccine doses given in Delhi, 50% of eligible population got at least 1 jab: Delhi CMThe national capital has a population of about two crore and among them, about 1.5 crore are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the chief m...
31 Jul, 2021, 06.25 PM IST
Free Covid jabs to be given to states from June 21: PM Narendra ModiThe plan for this new arrangement, government sources said, was first presented to the PM on June 1 after completion of one month of the Li...
08 Jun, 2021, 07.20 AM IST
COVID-19: India administers over 20 cr vaccine doses till May 25"The country has administered more than 20 crore (20,04,94,991) vaccine doses as per the 7 pm provisional report. Vaccination is an integra...
26 May, 2021, 09.03 AM IST
Boris Johnson to get ‘safe and effective' Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccineThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), however, does advice that anyone with a persistent headache beyond fou...
19 Mar, 2021, 07.55 PM IST
Covid vaccination drive: In Delhi, 51 mild reactions, one in hospital for two hoursA total of 52 healthcare workers of the 4,319 who received the Covid jab on Saturday reported adverse events post vaccination. While 51 rep...
17 Jan, 2021, 03.49 PM IST