UK researchers developing new COVID-19 vaccinesResearchers in the UK are using new ways to rapidly develop and mass manufacture mRNA vaccines and therapeutics at low cost against COVID-1...
20 Dec, 2021, 10.00 AM IST
Supreme Court dismisses plea to stop mass COVID-19 vaccination programmeThe bench said, "The High Court is right in dismissing the plea. Let us not cast doubt on the vaccination process. It is a key to protectin...
25 Oct, 2021, 08.20 PM IST
Ladakh first Union Territory to achieve 100% first dose coverage“We gave priority to hotel workers, most of whom are from outside Ladakh, and taxi/public transport drivers as they are in the front-line o...
11 Jul, 2021, 11.28 AM IST
Covid-19: In joint statement, 13 Opposition leaders request govt to launch free mass vaccination driveIn a joint statement, they also called upon the Centre to ensure uninterrupted oxygen supply to all hospitals and health centres as they ma...
02 May, 2021, 07.26 PM IST
PNG secures first major shipment of COVID-19 vaccine from IndiaPapua New Guinea will receive 132,000 doses of AstraZeneca PLC's COVID-19 vaccine from India next week, the PNG government told Reuters, ev...
07 Apr, 2021, 11.44 AM IST
Manipal Hospitals to set up vax camp at Infosys from tomorrow“We will set up our own temporary sub-centre at the campus with our own team of doctors, nurses, ambulance and all other things required,” ...
06 Apr, 2021, 10.46 AM IST
India might have to wait to vaccinate all its citizens. Here's whyIndia began vaccination against Covid-19 on January 16. In phase-I, only healthcare and frontline workers were eligible to get the vaccine....
18 Mar, 2021, 10.05 AM IST
Recruiting trial volunteers for future Covid vaccines may get difficult: CEPIRegulators around the world should be prepared for this by adapting to a pooled network of biomarkers to approve vaccines, the organisation...
06 Feb, 2021, 06.57 AM IST
India's Serum Institute delays vaccines for private sale in Bangladesh; focus on state campaignsAstraZeneca has been embroiled in a dispute in Europe after it said it would have to cut supplies of its vaccine there in the first quarter.
04 Feb, 2021, 03.52 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
British broadcaster David Attenborough gets his shot of Covid-19 vaccineA new variant of the virus which is highly transmissible is surging across UK.
13 Jan, 2021, 09.45 AM IST
Confusion in Maharashtra over adverse event and indemnityThere is confusion within the Maharashtra authorities about adverse event management and indemnity even as the state waits for vaccine supp...
09 Jan, 2021, 07.56 AM 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
UK starts mass coronavirus vaccination programmeThe first patients in line on what has been dubbed "V-Day" -- the over-80s, care home workers and at-risk frontline health and social care ...
08 Dec, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
UK's Johnson says still too early to rely on COVID-19 vaccine"I must stress that these are very, very early days, and we've talked for a long time, right about the distant bugle of the scientific cava...
09 Nov, 2020, 11.12 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