vaccines

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is targeting to vaccinate a majority of the state's population to avoid a severe third wave, Health and Family Welfare Director Bijay Panigrahy said on…

London: The Public Health England said that the two doses of COVID-19 vaccines are “highly effective” in preventing hospitalisation even if a patient has been infected with the Delta…

New Delhi: American pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna are in talks with the Centre over their COVID-19 vaccines, Niti Aayog member (health) Dr VK Paul said. “Approval to Pfizer…

New Delhi: A study by Public Health England (PHE) has found both Oxford-AstraZeneca (Covishield in India) and Pfizer vaccines to be highly effective against the COVID-19 variant first…

New Delhi: Faced with a massive shortage of vaccines amidst the raging second wave of COVID-19, the government is planning to send Foreign Minister S Jaishankar to the US next week.…

London: A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Britain has no surplus vaccine doses at the moment and is prioritising vaccinating its population. The spokesman said when…

New York: COVID-19 vaccines developed by BioNTech SE and Moderna lowered the infection risk by 80 per cent two weeks or more after the first jab, revealed the data from a real-world study of…

A study has found that Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines can protect people from the new coronavirus variants, including one first detected in South Africa called B.1.351.…

Pune: India will not allow the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine’s export for several months, according to Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla. SII has been…

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday thanked the Indian scientists for coming out with the vaccines against COVID-19. Taking to his Twitter handle, the chief minister said…