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New Delhi: The government aims to boost domestic vaccine production by booking 30 crore doses of Hyderabad-based Biological-E’s Covid jabs. The Health Ministry will make an advance payment of Rs 1,500 crore to the company for this purpose.…

New Delhi: Covishield-maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has sought indemnity from liability or legal protection from any claims linked any severe side effects from the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. Notably, foreign vaccine-makers Pfizer…

New Delhi: Questions have been asked in several quarters as to how everyone in India can be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of this year ever since Union Minister Prakash Javadekar made that claim last week. On Wednesday, another…

Bhubaneswar: While a committee of health experts has advised the Odisha government to intensify vaccination to contain the spread of COVID-19, yoga guru Baba Ramdev has struck a discordant note by claiming that the allopathy jabs are…

New Delhi: Now, people in the 18-44 age group who are “without access to internet or smart phones” can walk in for help to register on the CoWIN app and book slots for vaccination against COVID-19. The Centre informed this in a…

New Delhi: Even as most states have been complaining of inadequate availability of vaccines, the Union government said on Friday it will distribute a total of 1 crore 92 lakh doses of Covishield and Covaxin to the states and union…

After the Centre rubbished media reports saying that it had not placed fresh orders for COVID-19 vaccines, Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla also clarified they have received an advance of Rs 1732.50 crore from the Union…

Mumbai: Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla has said he will return to India from London in a few days. Poonawalla made the announcement soon after he spoke out about the pressures he was under over the production of…

Hyderabad: The first batch of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, arrived in Hyderabad on Saturday. According to reports, the first batch comprises 150,000 doses of Sputnik V. Another 30 lakh doses of the Russian-made vaccine are due…

New Delhi: Following the confusion over the price of the COVID-19 vaccines — Covishield and Covaxin — the central government has declared that it will procure both the COVID-19 vaccines at Rs 150 per dose. The Ministry of Health and Family…