Coronavirus vaccine

New York: There’s a new date for Covaxin’s likely approval by World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan, the global health body’s technical advisory group will...

Washington: As India concentrates on vaccinating a higher percentage of its eligible population in its fight against COVID-19, countries like the US are focusing more and more on booster doses,...

New Delhi: Indians, especially students, who had taken Covaxin continue to be on tenterhooks vis-à-vis foreign travel as Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine still doesn’t have global recognition. It’s been months...

You may not have heard of this tiny nation. But Palau is making headlines in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. An archipelago of 500 islands in the western...

New Delhi: Sputnik Light is yet to be to be approved for emergency use in India, but the Central government has permitted the export of Russia’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. Indian...

India had been expecting a positive news from the World Health Organization (WHO) vis-à-vis the acceptance of its Covaxin vaccine for COVID-19. A meeting of WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of...

Pune: The national rollout of Zydus Cadila’s Covid vaccine, ZyCoV-D will take two more weeks. “Different batches of ZyCoV-D are undergoing a final round of quality checks at the vaccine...

United Nations: The 76th session of the UN General Assembly president, Abdulla Shahid said that he has taken two jabs of Covishield vaccine manufactured in India. The Covishield vaccine developed...

COVAX, a global scheme co-led by World Health Organization (WHO), will for the first time distribute COVID-19 vaccines only to countries with the lowest levels of coverage. Since January, COVAX...

The flu vaccine, to protect the elderly from influenza, has become very common in several countries, including India. There have been debates over the past few months on whether the...