Coronavirus vaccine

Lucknow: There is no guarantee that a person will be immune from contracting coronavirus even after receiving two doses of the vaccine. It has come to light that several doctors...

Berhampur: Vaccination against COVID-19 is likely to come to a halt in Berhampur as the city is left with Covishield stock only for today. Due to shortage the health officials...

New Delhi: The government won’t permit fresh registration for COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare and frontline workers. Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote to the state chief secretaries that the Health...

New Delhi: An expert panel of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has permitted Bharat Biotech to administer a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin to a select group...

Rio de Janeiro: Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa has said that Covaxin did not meet its manufacturing standards. The Brazilian government had signed a contract in February to buy 20 million...

Bengaluru-based drugmaker Stelis Biopharma will produce 200 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which backed the development of Sputnik V, said on...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Monday achieved the target of vaccinating one lakh elderly persons in a single day. Sharing the news, Health Secretary Pradipta Mohapatra thanked each and every officer and...

Mumbai: Members of the legal fraternity should be considered as frontline workers and given access to the COVID-19 vaccine on priority basis, according to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed before...

Hyderabad: There’s reassuring news for those who had doubts about the efficacy and safety of Covaxin, one of the two vaccines being administered in India as of now. Bharat Biotech,...

New Delhi: The COVID-19 vaccine will now be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The time constraint which was there earlier has been done away with, the...