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Coronavirus vaccine
Govt Urged To Reduce Gap Between Booster Dose From 9 To 6 Months
Hyderabad: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last month that a ‘precaution’ dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered in India to frontline workers and those above-60 with comorbidities, it was announced that the booster…
India’s First mRNA Vaccine May Be Effective Against Omicron; Trials To Begin Soon
New Delhi: Human trials for India’s first mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccine will begin next month and is expected to be effective against Omicron, the highly-transmissible variant of coronavirus which is driving the third wave of COVID-19…
EC To 5 Poll-Bound States: Ramp Up COVID-19 Vaccination
New Delhi: It’s clear now that upcoming assembly elections in five states will be held on schedule, despite the alarming surge in COVID-19 cases in India.
On Monday, the Election Commission of India wrote to chief secretaries of Uttar…
Only Covaxin For 15-18 Age Group; Check Fresh Govt Guidelines
New Delhi: With the vaccination programme in India set to expand from next week, the Central government issued a fresh set of guidelines on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Christmas evening in a televised address to the…
With 9 Days Left In 2021, How Much Of India Is Fully Vaccinated Against COVID?
New Delhi: Union ministers had claimed five months ago that the entire eligible population in India will be fully vaccinated by the end of this year.
With just nine days to go before we bid goodbye to 2021, that goal is not going to be met…
Serum Institute To Launch Covovax Vaccine For Kids In 6 Months
New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) plans to launch a COVID-19 vaccine for children in the next six months.
It’s the US biotechnology company Novavax’s COVID vaccine, which the Pune-based firm will produce and manufacture in India as…
Necessity Of COVID Vaccine Booster Not Yet Decided, Central Govt Tells High Court
New Delhi: At a time when a large section of the population is looking forward to a booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine, the Central government told the Delhi High Court on Monday that there are no such guidelines at present from the country’s…
COVID Vaccine Panel Fails To Arrive At Consensus On Additional Doses, Jabs For Children
New Delhi: India’s top vaccine advisory panel failed to reach a consensus on both the booster dose and the vaccination of children amid the rise in Omicron cases on Monday.
The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI)…
COVID Vaccine Booster: Now, INSACOG Says More Experiments Needed To Assess Impact
New Delhi: In what can be construed by the public as confusing signals, India’s top genome sequencing laboratories have now said that many more scientific experiments are required to assess the impact of COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.
In…
Omicron Threat: Unvaccinated People Barred From Public Spaces In This State
Bengaluru: A day after the first two Omicron cases were confirmed to have been detected in India, unvaccinated people have been barred from accessing certain public spaces like parks, shopping malls and theatres in Karnataka.
Not just the…