Vaccine

New Delhi:  India is the most pro-vaccine country in the world as 98 per cent of its eligible population want to get vaccinated against Covid-19, as per the IANS-CVoter Vaccine Tracker. The data comes on a day when India reached the…

New Delhi:  Vaccine naysayers reduced from 12.8 per cent in May 2021 to just 2 per cent in October 2021, as per the IANS-CVoter Vaccine Tracker. This may be partly due to the deadly second wave of Covid-19 in Inida in April-May.…

London:   The UK reported another 223 coronavirus-related deaths, the highest number of fatalities recorded in one day since 231 were recorded on March 9, according to official figures released Tuesday. The total number of…

Geneva:  The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it has recommended widespread use of the world's first malaria vaccine called RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) for children in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the WHO, the vaccine is the result…

Washington:  The global coronavirus caseload has topped 235.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.80 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.31 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update…

Washington:  As the Joe Biden administration stepped up efforts to get more people vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in three new studies emphasised the importance of Covid shots in preventing death rates,…

Chandigarh:  Haryana has launched the third round of Covid-19 serological survey with the prevalence rate of 14.8 per cent as per the last round. For the first time, children above the age of six will be covered. Health Minister Anil Vij…

Hyderabad:  The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) on Wednesday announced that the first participant received Bharat Biotech's Chikungunya vaccine candidate (BBV87) in a Phase II/III clinical trial in Costa Rica. This marks the…

Chandigarh: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij, who earlier contracted coronavirus, was put on oxygen support on Friday after his oxygen levels dipped alarmingly, a doctor said. Dhruv Chaudhary, Head of Pulmonary Medicine Department of the…

New Delhi:  There is no vaccine hesitancy in India. Belying the narrative put forward by a section of the media, the latest IANS CVoter Covid Tracker shows that overall, 80 per cent in India are pro-vaccine, which is almost 10 per cent more…