Tag: Vaccination

The long-running polio campaign uses local people to carry out the door-to-door vaccinations because they are more trusted by residents. Yet in close knit villages, they can also be more liable to pressure and reluctant to go against friends, relatives or elders who oppose the campaign. The wild strain ...

India is set to begin phase-2 clinical trials of the world’s first single-dose pneumococcal vaccine for adults, manufactured by Biological E, News18.com has learnt.Pneumococcal vaccine – which is generally given in 4 shots to children and in at least 2 shots to adults – protects against several types of ...

Video Duration 24 minutes 30 seconds 24:30 From: Inside StoryMeasles cases are up 80 percent as the pandemic disrupts routine immunisation campaigns.For the past two years, the world has focused its attention on battling COVID-19. But that’s disrupted prevention and treatment programmes for other diseases. Millions of children have ...

New Delhi: Precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccines will be available to all aged above 18 years at private vaccination centres from April 10, the Union Health Ministry announced on Friday.All those above the age of 18 who have completed nine months after the administration of the second dose will ...

New Delhi: With the conclusion of the Assembly polls in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, the Centre plans to resume publishing the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on COVID-19 vaccination certificates in these states.Modi’s photo was removed from the vaccination certificates in the five states — Uttar Pradesh, ...

3,36,758 children to be vaccinated at 105 session sites Srinagar: After the completion of Covid-19 vaccination of priority groups of higher age, the Health Department Kashmir on Wednesday launched vaccination drive for the age group 12 to 14 years across Kashmir.The vaccination drive has been started on March 16, ...

The World Health Organisation is creating a global training center to help poorer countries make vaccines, antibodies and cancer treatments using the messenger RNA technology that has successfully been used to make COVID-19 vaccines. At a press briefing in Geneva on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros ...

Data from human trials of India’s first homegrown mRNA COVID-19 vaccine are likely to be presented to authorities for evaluation by the end of the month, and company officials are aiming to roll out the product before April, two senior scientists connected to the Department of Biotechnology told The Hindu.You ...

New Delhi, Feb 7: After the Central government told the Supreme Court on Monday that submitting Aadhaar card details is not a mandatory pre-condition on the CO-WIN portal for the COVID-19 vaccination, the top court asked the authorities not to insist on asking people for Aadhaar card for vaccination.While ...

KARACHI, PakistanPakistan on Tuesday launched a countrywide door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination drive as infections continue to surge due to the highly transmissible omicron variant.Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar, who leads the country's anti-virus strategy told a press conference in the capital Islamabad that some 35 million vaccine doses will ...