Mandaviya to meet state health ministers to discuss Covid vaccination, health schemeThe Centre has urged states and union territories to focus on beneficiaries who are awaiting their second dose of vaccine as per the schedu...
27 Oct, 2021, 01.12 PM IST
Tamil Nadu set to be 1st State to give kids Covid vaccine: Health MinisterAn expert panel of the Central drug authority has recommended granting emergency use authorisation to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for children...
14 Oct, 2021, 12.14 PM IST
Assam initiates Rs 90 crore scheme to make inland water transport system more safeOut of these vessels, three Steel catamaran vessels, namely MV Lohitwill ply between Nimatighat and Kamalabari, MV Sonai from Guwahati to K...
17 Sep, 2021, 11.54 PM IST
Indian banks face systemic risk, second COVID wave to impair performance: S&PIndian banks face systemic risk as the country sorts through the aftermath of the COVID second wave. Lenders struggled with a high level of...
30 Jun, 2021, 04.25 PM IST
Apply the law to accelerate Covaxin output: India has enough legal provisions to make it happen, say expertsBharat Biotech had issued a statement saying, “Capacity expansion has been implemented across multiple facilities... to reach 700 million d...
03 May, 2021, 09.33 AM IST
View: Express vaccination is our saviourThere are no two opinions that the way out of the pandemic still remains the same – express vaccination till we achieve herd immunity. Isra...
01 May, 2021, 05.32 PM IST
Asian countries scramble for vaccine supplies after India export curbsSeveral Asian countries scrambled to find alternative sources for COVID-19 inoculations on Tuesday after export restrictions by manufacture...
30 Mar, 2021, 05.26 PM IST
China offers its COVID-19 vaccines to diplomats, foreign journalistsA notice issued to the foreign journalists here on Wednesday said they can get the Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine, developed by Sinopharm's...
18 Mar, 2021, 01.09 PM IST
China cracks down on spurious, illegal, pricey coronavirus vaccinesOne group of suspects made a profit of about 18 million yuan ($2.8 million) by packaging saline solution or mineral water in 58,000 doses o...
15 Feb, 2021, 12.34 PM IST
WHO plans slew of COVID-19 vaccine approvals for global rollout: DocumentCOVAX, a global scheme co-led by the WHO, wants to deliver at least 2 billion COVID-19 doses across the world this year, with at least 1.3 ...
20 Jan, 2021, 09.15 PM IST
China to provide COVID-19 vaccines free of charge: Government officialChina in late December approved its first vaccine for general public use. Three vaccines had already been given to limited groups at high r...
09 Jan, 2021, 10.17 AM IST
Officer unions demand to include bankers as frontline COVID warriors for vaccinationAll India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC), All India Bank Officers' Association (AIBOA), Indian National Bank Officers' Congress (INBO...
08 Dec, 2020, 04.01 PM IST
PM Modi says mobile technology to be used for COVID-19 vaccination driveSpeaking at the India Mobile Congress, he said mobile technology has enabled benefits worth billions of dollars to reach the deserving and ...
08 Dec, 2020, 01.50 PM IST
View: India's pre-pandemic woes cast a shadow on its swift economic reboundAlthough India experienced one of the largest growth contractions among emerging markets in 2020, the larger decline sets stage for a large...
06 Dec, 2020, 11.30 PM IST
Explainer: When and how will COVID-19 vaccines become available?Pfizer, with partner BioNTech SE, and rival Moderna have released trial data showing their COVID-19 vaccines to be about 95% effective at p...
02 Dec, 2020, 06.38 PM IST
When and which COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be available in AsiaTrial data from Pfizer Inc with partner BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca Plc has shown their experimental vaccines are effective in...
01 Dec, 2020, 11.08 AM IST
When and which COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be available in AsiaThe head of the Serum Institute of India, which makes the AstraZeneca vaccine, said on Nov 23 the positive late-state trial result of the c...
26 Nov, 2020, 01.37 PM IST