The countrywide vaccination drive began on January 16 last year with healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase.
May 10, 2022Besides Corbevax and Covaxin, the DCGI also approved restricted use iA emergency situation to ZycovD (Zydus Cadila vaccine) for children above the age of 12 years for a two-dose regimen.
April 26, 2022With the administration of more than 36.28 lakh Covid-19 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 175.03 crore, said Union Health Ministry on Saturday.
February 19, 2022Currently vaccines are available in the country for adults, and children aged five and above.
January 16, 2022India is in touch with Pakistan for the supply of 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat for the people of Afghanistan. The wheat is to be transported to the war-torn country through Pakistan territory.
January 1, 2022The 100 million vaccines delivered so far also include over 50 million doses that Unicef has delivered to Bangladesh under the COVAX facility, which is the WHO-led initiative for equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines around the world.
December 29, 2021In total, the country has administered 134 crore jabs under the mass vaccination drive.
December 14, 2021Most of the vaccines, in general, have demonstrated their effectiveness against new variants including Delta in preventing hospitalisations and deaths.
December 7, 2021A downward trend in the daily Covid cases continued for the second consecutive day with 31,222 new cases and 219 deaths in the last 24 hours.
September 7, 2021According to Dr Nikhil Tandon, COVID-19 Vaccines do not provide 100% protection.
September 3, 2021Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the lockdown will continue until at least the end of the month in Auckland, where most of the cases have been found
August 23, 2021Following the arrival of fresh vaccine stock, the KMC said Covishield doses will be given on 9 August, but that all Covishield centres will again remain shut from 10 August until further notice. It cited the lack of vaccines from the government of India as the reason.
August 9, 2021A day after the Modi government failed to indicate in the Parliament a fixed timeline for the completion of the vaccination drive, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi took a dig by saying people’s lives are on the line and it’s a “classic case of a missing spine.” Rahul took to Twitter and wrote, “People’s lives …
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July 24, 2021However, the study suggests that vaccination does provide a reduction in hospital admission and mortality, the ICMR said.
July 16, 2021"We need14 crore vaccines to be prepared for combating the third Covid wave. We were giving three lakh does every day but had to stall the vaccination drive for a week due to the shortage of vaccines as the supply is irregular..."
July 15, 2021Israel is trying to halt a new outbreak of the Delta variant and launched a campaign calling teens over 12 years old to get vaccinated
July 12, 2021India needs to go at a vaccination rate of about 80 lakh per day to target 60 per cent of the population with both doses by December 2021.
July 11, 2021