Rx, world can't afford a relapseThe Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for global cooperation to address future pandemics. A study by AirAffinity reveals that dise...
15 Sep, 2024, 11.47 PM IST
Is the US facing a surge in COVID-19 cases? Symptoms, variants, vaccines and other detailsThe US is facing a summer surge in COVID-19 cases. The new variants are spreading and this has yet again raised the importance of taking pr...
28 Jun, 2024, 02.19 AM IST
A nose for wider booster vaccinationThe development of the first nasal Covid vaccine, along with others before it, is an affirmation of India's capacity to provide solutions t...
01 Jan, 2023, 10.39 PM IST
WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'The U.N. health agency's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the WHO's annual me...
22 May, 2022, 10.22 PM IST
Election-bound UP, Punjab and Manipur have a Vaxhill challengeThe Centre has set a target before states, which will witness multi-phase elections through February and the first week of March, to fully ...
21 Jan, 2022, 07.20 AM IST
Vaccinate all, sequence genesIndian vaccine makers, Bharat Biotech and Zydus Cadila, must publish studies on the efficacy of their vaccines in relation to the Omicron v...
19 Dec, 2021, 11.39 PM IST
1 in 4 citizens say local administration, companies have made Covid vaccination mandatory: SurveyForty per cent of the respondents said they or their family members' employers have made COVID-19 vaccination mandatory and another 13 per ...
13 Nov, 2021, 02.19 PM IST
Covid vaccines for kids? Strategies around the worldEarlier, India's Bharat Biotech, which completed the Phase 2/3 trials of COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin for use in children under 18 years of age...
08 Oct, 2021, 11.01 PM IST
Recovery should get accelerated with easing restrictions: KV Subramanian"The recovery should continue with the announcement of frontloading of the infrastructure spending which was one of the key aspects of the ...
14 Jun, 2021, 06.35 PM IST
India's coronavirus vaccination drive proceeding smoothly, says Union Min Jitendra SinghIn Jammu and Kashmir alone, around 66 per cent of the population above 45 years of age have received their first dose of vaccine, the minis...
26 May, 2021, 11.01 PM IST
How India can target 5 million vaccinations a dayWith debilitating lockdowns no longer an option, India needs to more than double daily vaccinations to curb the second wave and get the cou...
01 Apr, 2021, 07.31 AM IST
Pakistan's president, defence minister test positive for COVID-19Coronavirus cases are rising quickly in the South Asian nation and Prime Minister Imran Khan tested positive two days after receiving his f...
29 Mar, 2021, 11.08 PM IST
IRDAI: Existing policy to cover hospital stay for vaccine after-effectsAmit Chhabra, health insurance head at Policybazaar.com, said this IRDAI notification clarifies that any hospitalisation on account of afte...
19 Mar, 2021, 11.00 AM IST
Government in no hurry to allow sale of vaccines in open market“We need to see who needs and who wants it,” said a senior health ministry official. “We have expanded since the introduction of the vaccin...
17 Mar, 2021, 09.04 AM IST
Covid-19 vaccine programme: Adverse events data show jabs safe for useThis data comes as states have reported hesitancy during the immunisation drive, especially among those being injected with Covaxin as it r...
11 Feb, 2021, 08.14 AM IST
France takes careful vaccine approach to counter skepticismAfter the first shots were injected Sunday into the arm of 78-year-old Mauricette, a woman in a long-term care facility near Paris, Preside...
27 Dec, 2020, 09.29 PM IST
India tops global survey on COVID vaccination intent; Rising hesitancy in many countriesWhile vaccination intent has remained unchanged at 87 per cent in India since August, it has declined in 10 of the 15 countries surveyed, m...
06 Nov, 2020, 05.10 PM IST