India’s 100 crore-and-counting Covid vaccine doses show what people’s participation can achieveThere are some who only trust foreign brands. However, when it came to something as crucial as the Covid-19 vaccine, Indians unanimously tr...
22 Oct, 2021, 05.42 AM IST
View: Shouldn't we be using markers to prevent losing vaccine vials to heat damage?Covid vaccines have been the centre of all our attention. However, only China's Sinopharm has reportedly labelled its vials with monitors t...
08 Aug, 2021, 11.28 PM IST
188 crore Covid vaccine doses required to inoculate 18-plus population: GovtIn a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on whether the present Covid vaccine manufacturing firms have the capacity to produce t...
20 Jul, 2021, 03.39 PM IST
Bharat Biotech claims 77.8% efficacy of Covaxin in phase-3 trialsAnnouncing the much awaited safety and efficacy data from phase-3 clinical trials of Covaxin, the IMCR director Prof Balram Bhargava said C...
03 Jul, 2021, 09.15 AM IST
Sputnik V is safest among all COVID-19 vaccines, no deaths recorded: Buenos Aires studyThere were no deaths related to the Russian vaccine, and most post-vaccination events were mild, such as fever, headaches, and pain at the ...
24 Jun, 2021, 09.47 PM IST
WHO team raises concerns on Sputnik V filling plant in Russia: Issues addressed, says companyPharmstandard-UfaVITA, the firm that fills the vaccine (Gam COVID-Vac), said it has addressed all the issues raised by the WHO inspection t...
23 Jun, 2021, 08.41 PM IST
Government takes steps to enhance availability of Amphotericin B; 6.67 lakh vials allocated to states so far"Government has been able to mobilise over 6.67 lakh vials of the Amphotericin B for patients in the states and UTs and Central Health Inst...
17 Jun, 2021, 05.19 PM IST
Book those black-marketing medicines like Remdesivir under NSA: Yogi AdityanathChairing a review meeting with his core team of 11 top officials, Adityanath reiterated that there was no plan to impose a lockdown in the ...
21 Apr, 2021, 03.22 PM IST
Aarogya Setu app integrated with government’s CoWIN database, vaccination certificatesAarogya Setu, the government’s contact-tracing app, has been integrated with CoWIN, the database that supports India Covid-19 vaccination d...
08 Feb, 2021, 11.51 AM IST
Centre issues Letter of Comfort to Bharat Biotech for 45 lakh doses of its COVID-19 vaccineThe company was given a fresh letter of comfort recently for supplying another 45 lakh doses of Covaxin. The doses will be dispatched as wh...
19 Jan, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
2 hospitals prepare for PM Modi's interaction with vaccinated staffWeb cameras have been installed in the hospitals, two of the 10 vaccination centres in the district for smooth live session and the interac...
14 Jan, 2021, 04.36 PM IST
Vax populi: ‘Z+ security’ for pandemic era’s vials of goldCompanies, logistics firms, governments and hospitals are already ramping up infrastructure to safeguard vials of Covid vaccine against the...
12 Jan, 2021, 10.26 AM IST
Covid-19 vaccine: Each vaccine vial, with 10 doses, must be used within 4 hours of openingFor instance, some vaccines under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) can be used for about four weeks after the vial is opened (for...
11 Jan, 2021, 10.31 AM IST
As Delhi readies for Covid shot in the arm, here’s how the chain of events will unfoldFour Covid regional stores have been earmarked in Karnal in Haryana, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata for onward distribution of the vaccine amo...
02 Jan, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
Health ministry, Niti Aayog officials likely to meet EC top brass over COVID vaccine distribution: SourcesDuring the planned meeting, the health ministry and Niti Aayog could seek EC's help in distributing the vaccine to the right person and the...
17 Dec, 2020, 09.23 PM IST
Government issues guidelines for coronavirus vaccination drive, set to use Co-WIN platformAccording to the guidelines issued to states recently, the COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) system - a digitalised platform - wi...
14 Dec, 2020, 04.43 PM IST
Shantha Biotechnics gets WHO nod for cholera vaccineThe vaccine is the second “mass campaign” vaccine and first cholera vaccine worldwide to receive such a stamp of approval for storage and d...
26 Feb, 2018, 04.24 PM IST