Tag: Vaccination

India oi-Madhuri Adnal | Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 23:45 New Delhi, Feb 23: The Union health ministry on Tuesday asked Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh to expedite the vaccination of healthcare and frontline workers so as to confer immunity in the shortest possible ...

Employees pack boxes containing vials of COVID-19 vaccine at the Serum Institute of India in Pune. (AP)In a letter to the Maharashtra government, the health ministry said a rising trend of COVID-19 cases and the positivity rate has been observed in the districts if Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai and Suburban, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan, whose citizens have largely brushed aside the coronavirus pandemic as exaggerated or an outright hoax, is now preparing to distribute its first batch of vaccines.A half-million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, produced by an Indian manufacturer, were delivered to the capital, Kabul, by India on ...

Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to the Chief Secretaries of all States/UTs, asking them to accelerate the pace of COVID-19 vaccination with the number of days of vaccination in a week pushed up to a minimum of four days.Stating that there was a need to significantly enhance the ...

NEW DELHI: India is third globally, after the US and the UK, in highest cumulative vaccination numbers, the Union health ministry said on Thursday.Till 8 am on Thursday, the cumulative vaccination coverage of healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) against COVID-19 in the country has crossed 94 lakh, ...

More than 82 lakh beneficiaries have received first doses of coronavirus vaccine.Coronavirus vaccination in India: Over 23,000 healthcare workers receive second shot of vaccine! More than 82 lakh beneficiaries have received first doses of coronavirus vaccine after the drive began mid-January and now, the healthcare workers in the country ...

India oi-Deepika S | Published: Sunday, February 14, 2021, 0:10 New Delhi, Feb 13: Beneficiaries of the nationwide COVID-19 immunisation drive began receiving second dose with over 7,000 healthcare workers getting the jab on Saturday, 28 days after their first shot on the inaugural day. The Union Health ...

India on Saturday began giving the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine to healthcare and other frontline workers. Two lakh beneficiaries who were given a dose on January 16, the first day of the inoculation drive, will receive the second shot, reported The Indian Express. The second dose needs ...

CAA will come into force after Covid vaccination ends: Shah New Delhi, Feb 11: Addressing a rally in West Bengal’s predominantly Matua town Thakurnagar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, 11 February that the process of granting citizenship under the extremely contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will ...

Addressing a rally in West Bengal's predominantly Matua town Thakurnagar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, 11 February that the process of granting citizenship under the extremely contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will begin as soon as the COVID-19 vaccination process concludes.“As soon as the vaccination drive ...