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India oi-Deepika S | Published: Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 11:28 Srinagar, June 29: Wevan, in Bandipora district, became the first village in India to vaccinate all its adult population against COVID-19 earlier this month. Due to the difficult terrain of the area, the vaccinators had walked 18 km ...

India’s vaccination drive against the coronavirus began in January, and was kicked off in Jammu and Kashmir two weeks later. Six months later, while most people have been partially vaccinated or are ready to be vaccinated, there are some who refuse to get any jabs at all in the ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday applauded the country’s commendable momentum on the vaccination front and urges the nation to overcome vaccine hesitancy.Addressing the “Mann Ki Baat” radio programme, PM Modi said that India achieved a historic achievement by vaccinating more than 86 lakh people in a ...

File Pic NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said the party must play an active role in ensuring full COVID-19 vaccination coverage and address vaccine hesitancy wherever evident.She also said that the country needs to prepare for the possible third wave and take proactive measures so that ...

In 1879, following a visit to New York by William Tebb, the founder of The Vaccination Inquirer, a British journal devoted to anti-vaccine propaganda, the Anti-Vaccination Society of America was founded, and activists fought compulsory vaccination laws in several states. In the 1905 case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the ...

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Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s success at managing the coronavirus pandemic – with relatively low rates of severe disease and death – and distrust of government-led and foreign-funded public health initiatives has driven vaccine hesitancy, which could put the country’s fragile gains against COVID-19 at risk, say experts and officials. ...

Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials, optimism that life might be “back to normal by spring” is running high.There are many reasons to temper this optimism as there is a lot we don’t know about the safety and long-term efficacy of these vaccines, as many ...