Bharat Biotech seeks nod for phase-3 trials of intranasal COVID-19 vaccine as booster doseAn intranasal vaccine as a booster dose would be easier to administer in mass vaccination campaigns and has the potential to prevent transm...
20 Dec, 2021, 09.35 PM IST
18 passengers who arrived from overseas test Covid positive: Tamil Nadu Health MinisterThe number of people who tested Covid-19 positive on arrival from overseas to Tamil Nadu till date has increased with 18 passengers from "a...
11 Dec, 2021, 08.17 PM IST
Armenia will allow employers to fire unvaccinated workersArmenia began its mass vaccination campaign in April with authorities planning to inoculate 700,000 of the country's 2.9 million citizens b...
10 Dec, 2021, 10.35 PM IST
Gates Foundation & WHO help launch Go Give One drive for global vaccine distributionThe campaign will contribute $3 bn in Covax funding needed to vaccinate people sometime next year.
29 Apr, 2021, 11.01 AM IST
UK completes Covid-19 vaccination target of people over 50 ahead of scheduleUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a statement said: "We have now passed another hugely significant milestone in our vaccine program by off...
13 Apr, 2021, 09.08 AM IST
Centre will make COVID-apt behaviour mass movementThe Centre’s five-pronged strategy to deal with the merging crisis is ‘testing, tracing, treatment, Covid-19 appropriate behaviour and vacc...
08 Apr, 2021, 08.18 AM IST
New Zealand likely to keep borders shut for most of 2021 over COVID-19, says PM ArdernNew Zealand closed its borders to foreigners and non-residents in the spring of 2020, when the global COVID-19 crisis kicked off.
26 Jan, 2021, 11.30 PM IST
Saudi Arabia kicks off coronavirus vaccination campaignPeople aged over 65 as well as those with chronic ailments or at a high risk of infection will receive the vaccine in the first stage, and ...
17 Dec, 2020, 04.10 PM IST
Saudi announces three-phase roll out of Covid-19 vaccinePeople aged over 65 as well as those with chronic ailments or at a high risk of infection will receive the vaccine in the first stage, and ...
15 Dec, 2020, 05.00 PM IST
Sputnik V vaccine goes live on social mediaThe social media campaign will focus on progress of Sputnik V clinical trials, production and mass vaccination in different countries, acco...
09 Nov, 2020, 03.23 PM IST
Russia plans mass vaccination against coronavirus from October, health workers first in lineA source told Reuters this week that Russia's first potential COVID-19 vaccine, developed by a state research facility, would secure local ...
01 Aug, 2020, 02.26 PM IST
Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million childrenUNICEF reported a significant delay in planned vaccine deliveries due to lockdown measures and a dramatic reduction in the number of availa...
22 May, 2020, 09.09 PM IST
India remains polio free, all vaccines used in government immunisation prog safe: UNICEF, WHOThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...
11 Oct, 2018, 04.51 PM IST
Novel patch can better deliver polio vaccines: StudyKendall said,"ease of administration, coupled with dose reduction observed in this study suggests that the Nanopatch could facilitate inexp...
09 Oct, 2017, 01.39 PM IST
Government allays concerns on polio; says India remains polio-freeHealth Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...
15 Jun, 2016, 04.34 PM IST
Government to launch media campaign to educate people on immunisationThe campaign, which is to be launched by the Union Health Ministry, will have advertisements, jingles, workshops and a host of other activi...
22 Mar, 2015, 04.21 PM IST
Working towards eliminating measles by 2020: Health Minister Harsh VardhanGovernment is working towards eliminating measles by 2020 and two doses of measles vaccine have been introduced in the UIP
22 Jul, 2014, 07.20 PM IST