Quickly saturate the first dose coverage among the 18 plus population category: Union Health Secretary Rajesh BhushanBhushan chaired a high-level review meeting and stated states must also focus on the 60 plus age group as the coverage of both the doses in...
04 Sep, 2021, 08.51 PM IST
Delhi gets 28,900 more Covaxin doses for 18-44 age groupThe capital has 28,620 doses of Covaxin and 5,20,860 doses of Covishield in stock for those aged above 45, frontline workers and healthcare...
10 Jun, 2021, 08.02 PM IST
Advice to states to obtain nod before sharing vax stock data meant to prevent misuse: GovtThe Health Ministry clarification comes in the wake of media reports about the Centre writing to the states and UTs, advising them not to s...
10 Jun, 2021, 02.56 PM IST
Don’t make public vaccine stock and storage info, govt tells statesThe data are “owned” by the ministry and can't be made public without its consent, according to a letter written by Pradeep Haldar, advisor...
10 Jun, 2021, 08.25 AM IST
Health ministry ‘gags’ states on vaccine stocks, storage dataA Union health ministry letter to all states and UTs warning that data on vaccine stocks and temperature at all levels of vaccine storage i...
10 Jun, 2021, 08.25 AM IST
Centre asks states not to share data on vaccine stocks, temperature of vaccine storage in publicThe Centre has written to the states and Union territories, advising them not to share the data of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Netw...
09 Jun, 2021, 08.54 PM IST
Refrain from sharing sensitive vaccine related details: Health Ministry to statesAccording to the letter written by Pradeep Haldar, advisor, Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) the data on vaccine stock status and temper...
09 Jun, 2021, 04.43 PM IST
India plans to export Covid vaccines to the Gulf, Myanmar, Seychelles and North African nationsIn respect of Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius, India is awaiting confirmation of necessary regulatory clearances from those countries....
22 Jan, 2021, 10.09 AM IST
Message on phone to be ticket to immunityWhile the government has automatically registered healthcare and frontline workers on Co-WIN, others in the priority population groups will...
07 Jan, 2021, 10.29 AM IST
View: Addressing the last-mile challenges in Covid-19 vaccine distributionThe establishment of a national expert group for Covid-19 vaccine distribution and Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) to track ...
10 Dec, 2020, 11.08 PM IST
Covid-19 Vaccination: How will the government roll it out?Covid-19 vaccination could arguably be the most challenging exercise India has embarked upon. How will the government roll it out? What mak...
29 Nov, 2020, 10.35 AM IST
Covid-19: One crore frontline healthcare workers identified to receive vaccine in first phaseStates have been asked to accelerate the process of identifying frontline healthcare workers including doctors, MBBS students, nurses and A...
24 Nov, 2020, 03.17 PM IST
India’s election system, logistics sector can be the key to effective COVID-19 vaccine distributionThe pandemic is a call to action for the government machinery and the private sector to work in tandem to ensure effective vaccine deliveri...
21 Nov, 2020, 09.57 AM IST
Midwifing the vaccine: The When is visible but there’s much left to do on the Who and HowThe big ‘but’ butts into scalability. The usual sticking point of lab-to-arm is hugely multiplied when dealing with a totally new vaccine a...
20 Oct, 2020, 10.33 AM IST
Harsh Vardhan stresses on COVID-19-appropriate behaviour during festival season, winter monthsWith 62,27,295 recovered cases, India has the highest recovery rate of 86.78% in the world. Fatality Rate of 1.53 per cent is the lowest in...
13 Oct, 2020, 04.54 PM IST
Even manufacturers can't manipulate EVMs: Election CommissionWith Opposition's questions on the reliability of the electronic voting machines getting louder, the Commission has come out with a list of...
09 Apr, 2017, 02.34 PM IST
Govt ready with SMS-based vaccine monitoring systemBy SMS-based monitoring and electronic vaccine intelligence network, officials at the Centre will be able to manage vaccine movement, consu...
17 Jan, 2016, 11.43 AM IST