Coronavirus vaccine

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has welcomed the Indian government’s decision to provide COVID-19 vaccine booster/precaution dose free of cost to people in the age group of 18-59 years. He...

New Delhi: The Central government on Wednesday reduced the gap between second dose of COVID-19 vaccine and booster dose for all adults from nine to six months. “The precaution dose...

Hyderabad: India is a step closer to getting the first naval COVID-19 vaccine. Clinical phase 3 trials of Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 nasal vaccine have been completed, and the Hyderabad-based company...

Cambridge (US): There’s good news from the Moderna front vis-à-vis COVID-19 vaccine. The Massachusetts-based American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company on Wednesday announced positive results for its new vaccine which is meant...

New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Saturday approved Hyderabad-based Biological E’s COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Friday raised concern over the considerably slow pace of COVID-19 vaccination, and urged states and UTs to expedite the process towards full coverage...

New Delhi: Indian pharmaceutical company Stelis Biopharma are in a fix. They are stuck with a stock of 2.5 crore units of the single-dose Sputnik Light COVID-19 vaccine, unable to sell...

New Delhi: All adults are eligible to take the COVID-19 vaccine booster dose after a gap of nine months. Now, the rule for the third dose has been relaxed. Citizens...

Toronto: A newly-developed plant-based COVID-19 vaccine has been found to be 69.5 per cent effective against symptomatic disease caused by five variants of the coronavirus. Developed by researchers at Canadian...

New Delhi: There was good news finally for those who had been vaccinated with Sputnik V in India. The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) on Saturday approved the...