MUMBAI: The city's first field hospital built to tide over the Covid-19 crisis completed two years on Thursday. The BKC jumbo centre in Bandra's MMRDA Grounds, which came up in a record 17 days during the first wave, has treated 26,683…
Relaxing norms for Covid vaccine precaution dose, the Centre on Thursday allowed citizens travelling overseas to get the shot before the stipulated nine-month waiting…
The Standing Technical Sub-Committee of the NTAGI has recommended inclusion of the Serum Institute’s Covovax in the national COVID-19 vaccination programme for children aged 12 to 17 years, sources said on Friday.
India’s drug regulator…
Experts have advised people to get the booster dose of Covid vaccination towards protection from Covid-19 infections, hospitalisation and death. Those who have completed nine months after receiving the second dose are eligible to get the…
Disease caused by the Omicron variant of coronavirus is on average two days shorter than the Delta variant, according to a large observational study of vaccinated people in the UK. The research, published in The Lancet journal on Thursday,…
India’s first case of the XE variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Mumbai.\The Union Health Ministry, however, said that the sample which is being said to be…
The minister said 3,100 panchayats out of a total 12,585 panchayats in Tamil Nadu have achieved 100 per cent vaccination status in their region and very soon they would be honoured by certificates signed by Chief Minister M K Stalin. More…
Unvaccinated supporters will be able to attend the concluding third Test between West Indies and England in Grenada next week after government officials dropped the vaccine mandate for large public gatherings. For the five Twenty20…
On Saturday, more than 23 lakh (23,23,288) vaccine doses have been administered till 7 pm. The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of final reports for the day by late night, it said.
The cumulative…