Corona vaccination appointment via WhatsApp? Here’s the truth
Mumbai: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday warned citizens against falling prey to fake news surrounding coronavirus and the vaccination drive....
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European Medicines Agency issues post-vax adverse-event alert for medics
The safety committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has asked those receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine (called Covishield in India) and medical professionals to look...
UP has new Covid-19 peak with 8,490 cases
Lucknow: Breaking all previous records, 8,490 fresh cases of coronavirus were recorded in the past 24 hours in Uttar Pradesh. The number surpassed the previous...
India’s Serum Institute asks government for $403 million to boost AstraZeneca vaccine output
New Delhi: The Serum Institute of India, the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer, has asked the government for a grant of 30 billion rupees ($402.97 million)...
SII to start supplying 1st made-in-India pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to Centre from Wednesday
The Serum Institute of India (SII) will start supplying the first indigenously developed pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to the Centre from Wednesday, sources said on Tuesday....
Infected after 1st jab? You may not need 2nd shot, feel doctors
Kolkata: If you have got Covid after receiving the first dose of the vaccine — much before the second dose is due — you might...
Can I Lie to Get the Vaccine Sooner?
People are definitely fibbing to get the vaccine early, experts say, though no one quite knows the extent of the problem. “I’m hearing a lot...
Chinese firm to make 60 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik vaccine
Russia has agreed a deal for more than 60 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to be produced in China from May, the jab’s...
Can COVID-19 Vaccines Prevent Long COVID?
Long COVID has been “such a lonely place,” Kelly House, a 52-year-old long-hauler in North Carolina, told me. “You almost feel like, what’s wrong with...
A rapid Covid-19 vaccine rollout backfired in some US states
Despite the clamour to speed up the US vaccination drive against Covid-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the...