Tag Archives: Vaccination

NEW DELHI: Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Thursday said Zydus Cadila’s Covid-19 vaccine will soon be introduced in the national vaccination programme. He was speaking at a briefing held by the government on actions taken, preparedness and other Covid-related updates in India. The needle-free ZyCoV-D vaccine is manufactured by …

v-safe Overview V-safe is a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to give personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Through v-safe, you can quickly tell CDC if you have any side effects after getting a COVID-19 vaccine. This information helps CDC monitor the safety …

New Delhi: Amid reports and speculations about a possible booster shot of Coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry on Thursday said that getting the entire population inoculated by both doses of the jab is government’s first priority at the moment.  Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, India Council of …

New Delhi: The Union government on Saturday directed eight northeastern states along with Uttarakhand, Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir to increase focus on second dose vaccination among the 60-plus population. According to the Union Health Ministry’s release, this came as the Centre deemed the vaccine coverage in some of these …

REUTERS/Emmanuel Herman Dadoma: In one of the last countries in the world to accept vaccines against COVID-19, the President of Tanzania started a vaccination campaign on Wednesday by publicly receiving the vaccine and calling on others to do the same. The East African country’s government under former President John Magufuli …

The pace of vaccination of the 60-plus population has become sluggish in the past few weeks after an initial high, with healthcare experts attributing it to mobility issues and misinformation and unsubstantiated apprehensions about the jabs. According to Health Ministry data, 2.29 crore elderly people have been fully vaccinated so …

Puducherry: A village in Karaikal district, has achieved 100 per cent vaccination of all those aged 45 and above, according to the District Collector Arjun Sharma. With this, the village in Tirunallar area of the district has become the first village in the Union Territory of Puducherry to achieve the …

What You Need to Know More than 165 million people have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, and CDC continues to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines for any health problems that happen after vaccination. Since April 2021, there have been increased reports to …

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Covid-19 Coverage View more stories By July 4—two months from today—the Biden administration wants to have 70 percent of American adults vaccinated with at least one …

The centre is augmenting the Covid-19 vaccine registration portal (CoWin) to process as many as 10 to 20 million registrations a day as it prepares for a sharp increase in usage with an aggressive expansion of the nationwide vaccination drive from next month, officials said. User interface on the platform …