COVID Vaccination

New Delhi:  Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. has announced that it has received the permission from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to import the Sputnik vaccine into India for restricted use in emergency situations. This is as…

San Francisco: Facebook has announced to connect people in the US with state-specific information from local health departments about vaccines and how people can get their jabs. To do this, Facebook is replicating its state-by-state…

New Delhi: Close to one fifth or 18 per cent citizens or someone in their social network could not find a Covid-19 dose when they went for vaccination in the first 10 days of April, as per a Local Circles survey. However, amid the…

New Delhi: Announcing that a four-day countrywide 'Tika Utsav' (inoculation festival) is being started from Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to abide by four things that include wearing of masks as well as motivating others…

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning to make vaccination against Covid-19 a grand success story. For this, the party is going to launch a mass campaign like last year when it provided relief packets to millions of…

The Hague: The Netherlands has temporarily halted the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for people under the age of 60, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The decision on Friday was prompted by possible blood clotting…

Bhubaneswar: All the Covid vaccination centres (CVCs) across Odisha achieved a collective target of more than 2 lakh vaccination on Thursday. According to the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) department, a total 2,03,162 persons were…

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has targeted to double the number of persons to be vaccinated against Covid-19 from tomorrow with the opening of the window for vaccination of persons above 45 years of age. "Earlier…

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and his wife Nutan Goel on Tuesday took the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine at the Delhi Heart and Lung Institute. He took the second jab of indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine…

Mumbai: In a tough measure, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday announced a return to the night curfew regime from Sunday (March 28) across Maharashtra as the Covid-19 'second-wave' wreaks havoc in the state. As was the case…