Covid-19 Vaccines

London:  Booster shots of Covid-19 vaccines will soon become necessary for people to gain maximum protection against Covid-19, US top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci said on Sunday, after a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

Geneva:  Africa has been "left behind by the rest of the world" as only two per cent of the more than 5.7 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses administered globally have been administered there, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO)…

London: Children aged 12 to 15 will be offered the Covid-19 vaccine, Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) of the UK's all four nations have confirmed. England's CMO Chris Whitty said on Monday that they came to their decision after considering…

Washington: The US is expanding its manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines to help countries with low access to the lifesaving shots, the nations' top infectious disease expert has said. "We are now working on greatly expanding the capacity…

New Delhi:  The Union Health Ministry on Monday approved one more laboratory for batch testing and release of Covid vaccines to strengthen and speed up the mass vaccination drive, an official statement said. The Ministry approved and…

New Delhi: India's first intranasal vaccine, being developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Department of Biotechnology and its PSU, the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), on Friday got regulatory…

Washington: Most unvaccinated American adults don't believe the Covid-19 vaccines are very effective and see the jabs as a greater health risk than the virus itself, a new survey has revealed. A narrow majority (53 per cent) of…

Hyderabad: The number of doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered in Telangana reached 1.32 crore as more than 1.18 lakh doses were given during the last 24 hours. A total of 1,18,724 doses were administered across the state on Saturday…

Lisbon:  Portugal's National Authority for Medicines and Health Products (Infarmed) announced that it has decided to continue using the Covid-19 vaccines from the Janssen Laboratory after a reassessment, saying they met the European Union…

Colombo: Sri Lanka's health authorities administered the highest number of Covid-19 vaccines in a single day with nearly 400,000 people inoculated, statistics from the Health Ministry revealed. According to official figures released on…