COVID-19 vaccine

Bhubaneswar: Vaccination rate is low in five districts of Odisha, with four districts recording low coverage of the first dose, said Family Welfare Director and Odisha vaccination in charge Dr. Bijay Panigrahi on Wednesday. Panigrahi…

Bhubaneswar: Health care workers, frontline workers, and persons aged above 60 with co-morbidities are to receive the "Booster Dose" or "Precaution Dose" of Covid-19 vaccine from today. Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya has…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that more than 90 per cent of India's adult population has received single dose of Covid-19 vaccine. The Prime Minister was speaking after virtually inaugurating the second campus of…

Bhubaneswar: As many as 2,64,690 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered to children aged between 15 and 18 years so far in Odisha, informed Family Welfare Director and Odisha vaccination in charge Dr. Bijay Panigrahi on…

Lucknow: In an alarming development, Covid cases in Uttar Pradesh have doubled in the past 24 hours, while the number of active cases under treatment went up by over 300 per cent since January 1. According to the official data, 2,038 new…

New Delhi:  India supplied humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 Covaxin doses to Afghanistan on Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The doses were handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul. Another…

Hong Kong:  Contradicting the vaccine maker's pronouncement, a new study has found that a third dose of Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine does not provide sufficient protection against the Omicron variant. According to Nikkei Asia, the…

Jerusalem:  Israel on Wednesday announced plans to roll out a fourth shot of Covid vaccine to fight the new vaccine evading Omicron variant. According to the country's Health Ministry, the Pandemic Response team on Tuesday night…

Rome:  The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has added a fifth vaccine to its anti-Covid arsenal as the Omicron variant continued to spread across Europe. "EMA has recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for Novavax's…

New York: Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine is 90 per cent effective at preventing Covid-19 illness, according to results from a Phase 3 clinical trial. In addition to being highly effective in preventing Covid illness of any severity, the…