COVID-19 vaccine

Barwani: A 60-year-old woman died hours after allegedly receiving the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Barwani district, the India Today reported. The deceased, identified as Rajni Sen, was a clerk with the Madhya Pradesh health…

New York: The United Nations (UN) expressed its gratitude to India for gifting 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for its peacekeepers. “We are extremely grateful for this donation announced by the Indian delegation. The distribution will be…

New Delhi: As many as 25 countries are in the queue for COVID-19 vaccine made in India, while the government has already supplied it to 15 other nations. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday that three categories of…

New Delhi: Pfizer has decided to withdraw the application for emergency use authorisation of its COVID-19 vaccine in India, the pharmaceutical major said on Friday. Incidentally, the US company was the first firm to seek the emergency use…

Lucknow: A ward boy at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad died on Sunday evening, 24 hours after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine shot. The district’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO), however, said the death was unrelated to…

New Delhi: India began the world’s largest inoculation exercise against COVID-19 on a satisfactory note on Saturday. According to the Union Health Ministry, 1,91,181 people were administered the COVID vaccine on Day 1. A total of 16,755…

New Delhi: Amid criticism of what many consider to be ‘premature’ emergency use approval given to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, a senior scientist of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) vouched for the safety of the indigenously developed…

New Delhi: India has finally got its vaccine against coronavirus. Two vaccines — Pune-based Serum Institute’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin — received emergency use approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on…

New Delhi: The COVID-19 vaccine will be provided free of cost across the country, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister told this to the media after reviewing the dry run of the vaccination process at a…

New Delhi: With the Centre gearing up for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine in the country, it has planned to conduct dry run in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat and Punjab “considering the geographical locations”. A release by the Ministry…