Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla has thanked US President Joe Biden, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for policy change with respect to raw material needed for vaccine production saying it will boost manufacturing and strengthen fight against Covid.
Exuberating confidence in the nation-wide Covid vaccination drive, the Centre on Friday patted its own back and said that India has overtaken the US in terms of the number of people who have received the first dose of vaccine.
As per the Union Health Ministry, over 60 per cent elderly population has received at least one dose of vaccine.
President Joe Biden announced Thursday the U.S. will swiftly donate an initial allotment of 25 million doses of surplus vaccine overseas through the United Nations-backed COVAX program.
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday dialed PM Modi and discussed India-US partnership and vaccine support. The phone call was at the request of vice president Kamala Harris.
COVID vaccine trial for children underway at AIIMS Patna - Trial of COVID vaccines for the children started at AIIMS Patna from 28th May.
Trial of COVID vaccines for the children started at AIIMS Patna from 28th May.
A Jodhpur bench of the high court also took strong exceptions to the government’s failure to apprise it of their steps for giving Covid shots to people not having the prescribed identity cards, including the Hindu migrants from Pakistan.
We can vaccinate one crore people in a day, this is definitely ambitious but not impossible, Chief Economic Advisor KV Subramanian said on Thursday, as country makes contineous efforts to ramp up the inoculation drive.
It also noted that even the digitally literate are finding it hard to procure vaccination slots through CoWIN portal.
In a letter written to his counterparts across the country, Naveen Patnaik referred to the unabated pandemic as perhaps the greatest challenge faced by the nation since the freedom struggle.
Daily COVID cases continue to go downhill as national capital witnessed 576 new cases on June 2. Positivity rate has dipped to 0.78%.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has slammed the Centre over its vaccine policy saying inoculating everyone before December 2021 is just a hoax adding the government says baseless things.
Rumours and myths surrounding Covid-19 vaccines have thrown people in rural India, India TV's reporter reaches to the villages and asked people why they don't want vaccine
The Health department said each health centre will make a list of bedridden persons registered with them and make sure that they were ready for vaccination.
Pakistan on Tuesday launched its homemade Covid-19 vaccine named "PakVac" which it developed with the help of its ally China in order to vaccinate people in the country and bring under control the spread of coronavirus cases in the nation.
I don't think the third wave will be as deadly as the second wave. The need is to follow Covid protocol and vaccinate as many people as we can, said AIIMS chief Dr. Randeep Guleria.
India’s cumulative doses administered has reached 21,60,46,638. Of this, 17,12,00,166 are first doses and 4,48,46,472 are second doses.
As India reported 1.27 lakh Covid cases in nearly two months on Tuesday, the daily new infection rate is coming down day after day indicating that the country has past the peak of second coronavirus wave.
The Centre on Tuesday said that by July or early August, there will be enough COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate one crore people a day.
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