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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

PM Modi to review vaccine drive in 40 low-coverage districts

The meeting will include districts with less than 50 per cent coverage of the first dose and low coverage of the second...

1 Nov 2021 7:30 AM IST

A health worker prepares a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: AP)

Govt decision on Covid vaccination for children 'unscientific': AIIMS...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that vaccination against COVID-19 for children in the 15 to 18 age group will...

26 Dec 2021 2:25 PM IST

A healthcare volunteer inoculates an elderly man with COVID-19 vaccine dose at her home in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

Over 60 per cent eligible population fully vaccinated against COVID:...

The Ministry said that the country administered 70,17,671 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours

23 Dec 2021 12:20 PM IST

Syringes and vials of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen on a work surface during a drive through clinic at St. Lawrence College in Kingston. (Photo: AP)

UK researchers developing new COVID-19 vaccines

The research project will boost the UK's and the world's ability to rapidly develop new vaccines

20 Dec 2021 9:53 AM IST

A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester. (Photo: AP)

Study finds a longer lasting COVID vaccine

The findings suggested that viral polymerase could potentially be added to vaccines to create a longer-lasting immune...

16 Dec 2021 12:02 PM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time to bust anti-vaccine myths as all must get jab!

Some brave mullahs have turned their Islamic halls into vaccination centres and encouraged the community to get jabbed

30 Jan 2021 7:35 AM 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

Pedestrians walk on a near-deserted Westminster Bridge in central London on January 16, 2021, during the third nationwide novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Long lockdown defeats Britons; Spurs' shot in the arm...

We have vaccinations slowly covering the population but as of now it will be Easter before the over 50s will be covered

18 Jan 2021 12:50 AM IST

There will be 25 test beneficiaries who will be healthcare workers. Their data has to be uploaded in Co-WIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network) app

AA Edit | Speed up vaccinations, refresh awareness drive

The government must also open up the programme for all sections of the population, co-opt as many institutions, and make...

10 March 2021 8:50 AM 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

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)

PM Modi takes first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS

Sister P Niveda, from Puducherry, administered Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN to the prime minister

1 March 2021 9:59 AM IST

Family members of COVID-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling centre to refill their empty cylinders, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronavirus cases, at Naraina, in New Delhi, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Caring governance vital to save lives & India's...

The devastating second wave might not have struck so ferociously had it not been for the government's triumphalism

28 April 2021 7:23 AM IST