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A woman receives a dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Bali, Indonesia. Despite some reluctance in Europe, Asian nations, including India, are using Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid injections to inoculate people. (Reuters photo) Lockdown News Today Coronavirus Lockdown 2021 Live News: The government of Narendra Modi has changed the vaccination rules …

Coronavirus Vaccination: Over 77 lakhs of frontline and healthcare workers took the first dose as of Friday. New Delhi: The second dose of the Covid vaccine will be administered today to those who took the first injection on Day 1 of the nationwide inoculation campaign on January 16. AIIMS chief …

The world’s largest vaccination campaign against the new coronavirus will begin on Saturday when India begins vaccinating three million million of its front-line workers. In the first phase, two indigenous vaccines, Covaxin and Covishield, will be administered to the priority groups. More than one crore and 5.27 lakh people have …

Eatala Rajender is the Minister of Health for Telangana. Hyderabad: Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender, who had stated that he would receive the first vaccine in his state, did not do so today citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “strict instruction” that health workers should be first in the row. Yesterday, …

The indigenous vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) will be used as a ‘backup’, only if the country needs additional doses to vaccinate large numbers of people, particularly given the possibility of an increase sudden triggered by the UK variant. And, unlike the …

The indigenous vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) will be used as a ‘backup’, only if the country needs additional doses to vaccinate large numbers of people, particularly given the possibility of an increase sudden triggered by the UK variant. And, unlike the …

For the executive director of the Serum Institute of India, Adar Poonawalla, the moment of happy new year came on January 3 after the General Controller of Drugs of India on Sunday gave the final go-ahead to Covishield, the vaccine developed by the Oxford University and leading pharmaceutical Astrazeneca and …

Workers transport an Envirotainer, a temperature-cooled container, at the airport. The distribution of vaccines in India will pose many logistical headaches given the size of the country, its vast population and the number of coronavirus cases, now at more than 10 million. For its part, India’s busiest airport is “fully …

As India prepares for mass vaccination against Covid once approvals are obtained, states with more people in the age group 50 and over and with comorbidities like diabetes and hypertension are expected to get larger allocations (plus, of course , frontline healthcare workers, essential personnel, and police and defense personnel). …

Multiple states, including Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh, have already announced free COVID-19 vaccines for all people in the states. Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Saturday that the COVID-19 vaccine will be available at no cost to people in the state. “No one will be charged for the …