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The government must at least now do a rethink on the campaign and be true and honest with the people on its components. It must win peoples confidence by placing all the facts before them, to start with; piecemeal and ad hoc release of critical information is not the right way to do it. (Photo:AFP)

AA Edit | Put politics, profit aside; level with all on vaccine

The government and the companies should have been upfront about the products from the beginning

23 Jan 2021 12:00 AM IST

A health worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a government Hospital in Mumbai, India. (AP)

Centre issues Letter of Comfort to Bharat Biotech for 45 lakh doses of...

The Hyderabad-based vaccine maker will be supplying over eight lakh doses of Covaxin to some of the friendly countries...

19 Jan 2021 3:43 PM IST

A nurse, right, performs rituals to a box containing COVID-19 vaccines upon its arrival at a government Hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. (AP /Ajit Solanki)

AA Edit | Transparency the key to success of vaccine drive

If a vaccine is under trial and has not gone through the due process, its administration should be called clinical...

18 Jan 2021 12:10 AM IST

A health worker shows the Covishield vaccine, after arrival of the first batch of the vaccines from the Serum Institute of India. (PTI)

Pregnant, lactating women should not be given COVID-19 vaccine now:...

The ministry has listed precautions and contraindications for COVID-19 vaccination along with a comparative factsheet...

15 Jan 2021 10:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PTI photo

PM Modi to launch COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16

Modi is likely to interact via video link with some healthcare workers fwho will be receiving the shots on the first day

15 Jan 2021 9:17 AM IST

As the data for the phase 3 trails not yet ready concerns are being raised over the efficacy of the Covaxin (Representational Image: AFP)

2 Congress leaders doubt efficacy, DCGI chief calls Covaxin 110% safe

The All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) urged the government to withdraw permission to Covaxin

4 Jan 2021 4:10 AM IST

A medic demonstrates the administration of COVAXIN, COVID-19 vaccine, on a health worker during a dry run, in Srinagar, Saturday, January 02, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Bharat Biotech recruits 23k volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials

Covaxin has been evaluated in approximately 1,000 subjects in Phase I and Phase II clinical trials

3 Jan 2021 11:50 AM IST

Bharat Biotech has submitted data from Phase 1 and 2 trials to the CDSCO and the Drugs Controller General of India (Representational Image: AFP)

Nod for vaccines amid scare over new strains of Covid-19

Subject Expert Committee of the CDSCO granted permission to Bharat Biotech in the clinical trial' mode and with abundant...

3 Jan 2021 4:43 AM IST

The Centre has purchased 11 million doses of Covishield vaccine for the ongoing inoculation drive. (Photo: AP)

India's gift of 200,000 COVID vaccine doses will be sent to UN...

More than 58 million Made in India coronavirus vaccine doses have reached about 70 countries in the recent weeks

26 March 2021 11:40 AM IST

If you have taken the shot before anybody else in your circle -- your bhav goes up instantly! (Representational Photo: AFP)

Shobhaa De | I've vaxxed Have you? Jab' as a status symbol

Meanwhile, Bollywood is all a-flutter dealing with the income tax raids on handpicked filmwallahs

6 March 2021 4:58 AM IST

While the rats, mice, rabbits and Syrian hamsters were lab-bred, the rhesus macaques that were used in testing Covaxin candidates were caught in the wild in Maharashtra. (Representational Image/AFP)

Rats, mice, rabbits, hamsters and monkeys - The true heroes in...

The lakhs of people receiving Covaxin to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in India and elsewhere have much to thank...

4 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

The prime minister also posted a picture of himself taking the first dose of the vaccine in which he is seen sporting a Assamese gamocha and getting inoculated with a smile on his face. (Image credit : Twitter/@narendramodi)

AA Edit | Hope around corner as vaccine drive picks pace

The inoculation rate is going to be the biggest challenge for India with a huge number of two-dose vaccinations to be...

3 March 2021 9:37 AM IST