India's Covid vaccination drive completes one year, over 156.76 crore doses administered so farThe drive was rolled out on January 16 last year with healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase. Vaccination of frontline wo...
16 Jan, 2022, 11.59 PM IST
Talks on to make Zydus Cadila's COVID-19 DNA vaccine part of inoculation programme: GovtZydus Cadila's indigenously-developed needle-free COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D received the Emergency Use Authorisation from the Drugs Controll...
23 Sep, 2021, 09.07 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
Citizens irked over suspension of COVID-19 vaccination drive in MumbaiSome residents also wondered if this was a bid to "divert people to private hospitals" for paid jabs rather than getting free vaccine doses...
01 Jul, 2021, 11.48 AM IST
Arunachal defers launch of COVID vaccination drive for people aged 18-44 yrs due to 'technical' reasonsThe third phase of the vaccination programme has been postponed for an indefinite period, National Health Mission (NHM) director for the st...
30 Apr, 2021, 01.58 PM IST
India opens up immunisation to more people, vaccine exports to dwindleThe country, with the most number of reported COVID-19 cases after the United States and Brazil, has so far injected 64 million doses and e...
01 Apr, 2021, 09.35 AM IST
India to take Covax doses only if they meet criteriaVaccines that have not undergone a bridging trial will not be accepted, a senior government official told ET. A bridging trial is a study c...
05 Mar, 2021, 08.10 AM IST
Bengal elections: COVID vaccination of polling officials to begin on Feb 22The COVID-19 inoculation process of polling officials who will be involved in the ensuing assembly elections in West Bengal will commence f...
17 Feb, 2021, 09.03 PM IST
Serum Institute applies for trials of another Covid vaccine- CovovaxThe country launched its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the world's largest ino...
30 Jan, 2021, 05.04 PM IST
Telangana yet to use Covaxin; inoculation underway in 324 sitesThe official said on the second day that Serum Institute's Covishield will be administered as Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is yet to be dispatc...
18 Jan, 2021, 11.52 AM IST
Sanitation worker becomes first person to get COVID vaccine in AIIMS; Vardhan calls it historic dayMore than one crore cases and 1.5 lakh fatalities later, India took its first steps out of the pandemic with shots of the Covishield and Co...
16 Jan, 2021, 08.15 PM IST
Vladimir Putin orders mass coronavirus vaccinations in Russia from next weekRussia has imposed no broad lockdown during the second wave of infections that began in September and officials have said that targeted res...
13 Jan, 2021, 06.41 PM IST
Private sector willing to partner with govt for accelerating COVID vaccine administration: FICCIFICCI has submitted a detailed plan outlining what support private sector, including healthcare, can provide, through the FICCI-EY Strategy...
07 Jan, 2021, 03.07 PM IST
Russia approves Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for people over 60: MediaPeople over 60 have thus far been excluded from Russia's national inoculation programme, as the shot was tested on this age group separatel...
26 Dec, 2020, 01.07 PM IST
IMA offers govt services of its members in COVID-19 inoculation programmeThe vaccines will have to be provided according to cold chain conditions along with disposables. This will be a force amplifier for the vac...
29 Nov, 2020, 08.55 PM IST
Covid-19: National vaccine administration policy in the works to get jab job done“India has the world’s largest vaccination programme. We already have a robust system of electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN), th...
26 Nov, 2020, 06.30 AM IST
Gram Swaraj Abhiyan benefits yet to reach many poor householdsThe government claims it has achieved “100% saturation”. However, all beneficiaries are not covered.
24 Sep, 2018, 08.12 PM IST