COVID-19 vaccine

New Delhi: India has overtaken the US in the number of people who have been given the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the government said on Friday. “The vaccination data put out by Our World in Data shows that India has administered the…

New Delhi: Even while the country is successfully going ahead with its vaccination programme, there is a divided opinion on whether India should expand the eligibility criteria for vaccination against COVID-19? The opinion on the issue is…

New Delhi: The COVID-19 vaccine will now be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The time constraint which was there earlier has been done away with, the idea being to increase the pace of vaccination, Union Minister for Health and…

New Delhi: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi got vaccinated, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and External Affairs minister S Jaishankar also received the jab on the first day of COVID-19 inoculation drive for senior citizens and those above…

Patna: The Centre has announced that the COVID-19 vaccine will be available free of cost at government hospitals while the price has been capped at Rs 250 per dose for private centres. However, on a day when vaccination for senior citizens…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the first COVID-19 vaccine jab at AIIMS-New Delhi on Monday. Sister P Niveda, from Puducherry, administered COVAXIN, manufactured by Bharat Biotech, to PM Modi. “Took my first dose of the…

Bengaluru: The Union government has capped COVID-19 vaccine price at Rs 250 per dose, the break-up being Rs 150 for vaccine and Rs 100 as service charge. There has been no reaction so far from Indian vaccine manufacturers, but Biocon…

New Delhi: India may have a choice of three or four coronavirus vaccines in a few weeks and people can probably pick which one to take, according to the chief of Delhi’s premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Dr Randeep…

New Delhi: The cost of COVID-19 vaccine at private hospitals in India has been capped at Rs 250 per dose. “It was intimated that the service charge to be recovered by private hospitals acting as COVID Vaccination Centres would be subject…

New Delhi: Come March 1, it will be the turn of senior citizens and those above 45 with comorbidities to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Centre has announced that 10,000 government centres and over 20,000 private sites will be set up to…