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Jan 26, 2021 01:19 PM IST There is no doubt that getting vaccinated protects the recipient. Still, several infectious-disease researchers cautioned that it would be months before enough people will have gotten the shots to allow for normal life to begin again
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Jan 25, 2021 02:36 PM IST This also helps us in balancing what China is doing quite effectively, in terms of supplying vaccines and medicines to some countries.
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Jan 24, 2021 11:59 AM IST Around 1.91 lakh people have been given COVID-19 vaccine in the last 24 hours in India, the health ministry said on January 24.
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Jan 24, 2021 07:18 AM IST Coronavirus News Highlights: More than 14 lakh people in India have received at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine so far
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Jan 23, 2021 02:00 PM IST More than 3.47 lakh people were given COVID-19 vaccine in the last 24 hours in India, the Union Health Ministry said.
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Jan 23, 2021 12:38 PM IST US President Joe Biden has said that “things are going to continue to get worse before they get better” and offered “the brutal truth” that it will take eight months before a majority of Americans will be vaccinated.
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Jan 23, 2021 08:31 AM IST This break will be used by state authorities to check the COVID-19 vaccine stockpile and review their database.
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Jan 23, 2021 07:20 AM IST Coronavirus News Highlights: India's COVID-19 tally stands at more than 1.06 crore. While the death toll stands at 1.53 lakh, the recovery rate has surged to 96.8 percent
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Jan 22, 2021 11:11 PM IST A shipment of 2 million doses of Covishield, the Indian variant of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, was dispatched from Mumbai on January 22.
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Jan 22, 2021 11:12 AM IST PM Narendra Modi's interaction with COVID-19 beneficiaries and vaccinators comes at a time when some have shown hesitation towards getting vaccinated.
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Jan 21, 2021 11:12 AM IST The news of PM Narendra Modi and chief ministers above the age of 50 getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in the next phase comes at a time when some beneficiaries are hesitating to take the shot, leading to a slower rollout.
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Jan 21, 2021 10:14 AM IST States are planning to roll out awareness campaigns and are reaching out to religious groups and minority institutions to encourage hesitating healthcare workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Jan 21, 2021 08:16 AM IST These additional COVID-19 vaccine doses are seen as critical to complete inoculation of healthcare and frontline workers as part of phase-1 of the nationwide vaccination exercise.
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Jan 20, 2021 07:56 PM IST The authorities have been red-flagged about the wastage of doses - which has emerged as an issue of concern in the past four days of immunisation programme.
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Jan 20, 2021 05:57 PM IST Amit Singh volunteered for the trials in Bahrain, which like other Middle East countries, has approved the use of Sinopharm
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Jan 20, 2021 08:16 AM IST The foreign ministry said shipments of COVID-19 vaccines would start on January 20, following requests from “neighbouring and key partner countries”.
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Jan 20, 2021 01:54 AM IST J&J’s vaccine is a single shot one, one big reason why it has led to hawk eyes on its development.
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Jan 19, 2021 05:51 PM IST Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan announced that the country has so far inoculated 4.54 lakh persons. Only a miniscule proportion of 0.18 percent reported adverse events so far.
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Jan 19, 2021 05:19 PM IST The pace of vaccination is one of the highest in the world, as India has succeeded to inoculate 6,31,417 persons within four days of launching the immunisation programme.
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Jan 18, 2021 03:13 PM IST The move towards ensuring insurance protection comes as the government clarified that drug manufacturers would be held liable for “adverse effects” arising due to their COVID-19 vaccine, same as with any other vaccine/drug.
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Jan 18, 2021 10:15 AM IST At least three states administering Bharat Biotech's Covaxin told the central government that they faced hesitation from beneficiaries who had to sign the consent form, according to a report.
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Jan 18, 2021 09:13 AM IST Serum Institute's Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said that exports of the COVID-19 vaccine doses will start only after local requirements are fully met.
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Jan 18, 2021 07:46 AM IST Britain has more than 51 million adults in its population of 67.5 million people.
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Jan 17, 2021 01:34 PM IST Worries have grown that delays in the delivery of Pfizer-BioNTech shots could hamper a European COVID-19 vaccine rollout which has already faced heavy criticism across the continent.
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Jan 17, 2021 12:41 PM IST The head of Pakistan's national agency for COVID-19, told a local news channel that the vaccine in the first phase will be administered to health workers and those aged 65 and above.