Covid Vaccine

Washington: Pfizer Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said people will likely need a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully inoculated. Bourla told CNBC News on Thursday that it is…

Washington: Several states in the United States have temporarily shut down some vaccine sites after people suffered adverse reactions to the shot. A total of 18 people in North Carolina reported side effects, while 11 people in Colorado…

Manila: The Philippines received the second batch of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac vaccines purchased from China. The Philippine Airlines, which flew the vaccines to Manila, handed over the shipment to Carlito Galvez, the official in…

Beijing: A new Covid-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinopharm has recently been approved for clinical trials. The new recombinant Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the National Vaccine & Serum Institute, a R&D centre of Sinopharm's…

Geneva: A causal link between the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and the rare occurrence of blood clots with low platelets is "considered plausible but not confirmed," the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Earlier on the day, the…

Bhubaneswar: The total number of vaccination in the State came down to around 1.10 lakh on Thursday. The low rate of vaccination has been attributed to the shortage of vaccines in Odisha where more than 2.5 lakh persons were getting…

New Delhi/Lucknow: A successful doctor couple in their 60s, who live in the posh Gomti Nagar locality in Lucknow, received both doses of Covid vaccine last month. Re-energised, they resumed private practice at their clinic. But to their…

Bhubaneswar: Total, 1,73,307 persons were vaccinated in Odisha on Tuesday out of which 10,778 were administered Covaxin while the rest (1,62,529) were given Covishield. Today, the majority of those vaccinated, 1,09,405, were between the…

United Nations: COVAX, a World Health Organization-led initiative aimed at ensuring equal access to Covid-19 vaccines, has so far shipped more than 36 million doses of the jabs to 86 countries, a UN spokesman said. "Algeria received more…

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh): The auxiliary nursing midwife (ANM), who gave two successive jabs of Covid-19 vaccine to a woman at a primary health centre in Akbarpur area of Kanpur Dehat district, was allegedly busy on a phone call which made her…