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COVID vaccine

India reports 3205 new Covid cases, 31 fatalities 

By PTI NEW DELHI: India reported 3,205 new coronavirus infections in a day, pushing the number of active cases to 19,509 and the overall...

Gap between second dose of COVID jab, precaution dose to be reduced to six months soon

By PTI NEW DELHI: The government is likely to soon reduce the gap between the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine and the precaution dose...

DCGI grants EUA to Corbevax for those aged 5-12, Covaxin for 6-12 age group

By PTI NEW DELHI: India's drug regulator has granted emergency use authorisation for Biological E's COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax for those aged five to 12...

Millions of COVID vaccines unsold; stopped production since December 2021: Adar Poonawalla

By PTI MUMBAI: The Serum Institute of India has stopped producing the COVID-19 vaccine since the last day of December 2021 as it has...

Delhi, Bihar government to reimburse Centre for using COVID jabs as free precaution dose

By PTI NEW DELHI: Delhi and Bihar, which have started administering free Covid precaution doses for the 18-59 year age group, have to reimburse...

US FDA puts Covaxin’s second phase trials in US on hold after fallout on WHO’s observations

By PTI HYDERABAD: The US Food and Drug Administration has put on hold the phase 2/3 clinical trials of Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin,...

Over 9,500 precaution doses of COVID-19 vaccines given on April 10

By PTI NEW DELHI: A total of 9,674 precaution doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the 18-59 years age-group on the first day...

‘Precaution dose to be of same Covid vaccine, private centres can levy up to Rs 150 as service charge’: Centre 

By PTI NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday told the states that the precaution dose will be of the same COVID-19 vaccine as the...

Govt panel recommends inclusion of Covovax in national Covid vaccination drive for those aged 12 and above

By PTI NEW DELHI: The COVID-19 Working Group of the NTAGI has recommended inclusion of the Serum Institute's Covovax in the national vaccination programme...

Second Covishield dose can be given between 8-16 weeks after first: NTAGI

The NTAGI has not yet suggested any change in the schedule of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, whose second dose is administered 28 days after the first dose.

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Now weapons will not be raised… 3 Naxalites including rewarded Naxalite surrendered, 685 Maoists have returned home

Dantewada. Influenced by the Lon Varatu (Come Back Home) campaign, 3 Maoists including 1 rewarder have laid down...