Coronavirus vaccine

Canberra: Australian children as young as five could be eligible for coronavirus vaccines before the end of 2021 as the country continues to battle the third wave of the pandemic, a top official announced on Sunday. Allen Cheng, the…
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New Delhi: As the second wave of Covid-19 debilitates the country's health infrastructure and causes an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, the need of the hour is a potentially life-saving vaccination dose. However, it may not even reach…
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Washington: Students at the Harvard University in the US will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at the start of the new term later this year. "To reach the high levels of vaccination needed to protect our community, Harvard…
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New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday said it has so far provided more than 17.15 crore vaccine doses to States/UTs free of cost and more than 89 lakh doses are still available with the States/UTs to be…
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New Delhi: The Delhi government is working on a budgetary allocation where vaccination against Covid-19 will be provided free of cost to city residents at Delhi government-run public hospitals, sources said. The special allocation for…
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it is "unrealistic" to expect the Covid-19 pandemic to be over by the end of 2021. "I think it will be very premature, and I think unrealistic, to think that we're going to finish…
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Kathmandu:  The Covid-19 vaccines that India has granted to Nepal arrived in Kathmandu on Thursday. Indian Ambassador to Nepal handed over the vaccines to Health Minister Hridesh Tripathi at a function held at the Kathmandu airport.…
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New-Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to get vaccinated for Covid-19 in the second phase of the immunisation programme. The chief ministers will also receive the vaccines in the next phase of the campaign. India is…
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New-Delhi: Bharat Biotech, the manufacturer of Covaxin has released an advisory asking who are immuno-compromised or on medication that affect the immune system, not to take the vaccine shot against the novel coronavirus. The company…
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New Delhi: Even as the government on Saturday said there was no hospitalisation post-Covid vaccination, a 22-year-old security guard at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)…
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