Government may go for mixing vaccines for booster doses; move based on a soon-to-be-released study"One could give an additional dose of the same vaccine but the results aren't as good as when the jabs are mixed," a senior government offi...
27 Dec, 2021, 11.11 AM 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
India to export 8 million Covid-19 jabs in OctoberPrime Minister Narendra Modi promised to resume exports at a meeting of leaders from the so-called Quad in Washington as India, Japan, Aust...
25 Sep, 2021, 04.59 PM IST
If giving 3rd jab is at others expense, so is priority in vaccination: Kerala HC to Centre, state govtThe observation by Justice P B Suresh Kumar came after the central and state governments expressed their reservations in granting a third j...
10 Aug, 2021, 05.37 PM IST
‘Hello, So areYou Vaccinated?’As we slowly become more sociable and step out with caution en mask, looking left and right before crossing public spaces like never before...
09 Aug, 2021, 11.26 PM IST
Over 1 crore vaccine doses given in Delhi, 50% of eligible population got at least 1 jab: Delhi CMThe national capital has a population of about two crore and among them, about 1.5 crore are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the chief m...
31 Jul, 2021, 06.25 PM IST
COVID-19: India administers over 20 cr vaccine doses till May 25"The country has administered more than 20 crore (20,04,94,991) vaccine doses as per the 7 pm provisional report. Vaccination is an integra...
26 May, 2021, 09.03 AM IST
64,000 people got COVID-19 vaccine jabs in Delhi on May 22: AAP MLAAround 64,000 people received COVID-19 vaccine jabs in Delhi on May 22, AAP MLA Atishi said on Sunday. She also said that there will be no ...
23 May, 2021, 07.41 PM IST
Taking the jab to where India livesPolitical and religious leaders, celebrities, social media influencers, television anchors, everyone must be roped in to evangelise the vac...
16 May, 2021, 10.46 PM IST
Uttarakhand: BJP MLA's son gets vaccine jab ahead of official schedule for his age groupDoon hospital staff requesting anonymity said the MLA, along with his wife and son, arrived at the medical superintendent's residence on Ma...
09 May, 2021, 06.48 PM IST
BMC receives 1 lakh COVID vaccine doses"Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation received a fresh stock of one lakh vaccine doses last night and it will resume vaccination of people ab...
05 May, 2021, 08.24 AM IST
Over five lakh receive vaccine jabs in Maharashtra, highest in a dayAs many as 4,678 healthcare workers were given their first dose of the vaccine while 12,179 got a second dose, he said. Also, 24,987 and 16...
27 Apr, 2021, 05.59 PM IST
Approvals for J&J jabs soon, pricing to be reasonable: Vaccine Task Force co-chair K Vijay RaghavanGlobal vaccine maker Johnson and Johnson has applied to India’s drug regulator seeking permission to conduct phase 3 clinical trial of its ...
20 Apr, 2021, 03.24 PM IST
Denmark drops AstraZeneca vaccine for good, in European firstDespite recommendations from the World Health Organization and European medicines watchdog to continue using the inoculation, "Denmark's va...
14 Apr, 2021, 06.31 PM IST
Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli takes Covishield vaccineOli and wife Radhika Shakya received the Covishield jabs at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital on Sunday morning. The Covishield va...
07 Mar, 2021, 08.42 PM IST
Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine expands to GP services in UK“The biggest vaccination programme in NHS (National Health Service) history is already off to a strong start with around 1 million people a...
07 Jan, 2021, 03.56 PM IST
AstraZeneca plans 2 million doses a week of COVID-19 vaccine for UK: ReportsWhile AstraZeneca says it expects 2 million doses of the Oxford University vaccine to be ready each week in just over a fortnight, Pfizer B...
02 Jan, 2021, 05.37 PM IST