What are India’s options for a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Hyderabad-based Biological E’s Corbevax and SII’s Covovax, both of which are protein-based vaccines, are India’s best bet for a …
Rich countries must share their vaccines with poor ones quickly: WHO panel
Vaccine distribution to low-income countries falls short of 1 billion target, former panel leaders, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark, said
Back to school? May have unimaginable, uncontrollable consequences on health
Instead of reopening schools, educationists should research how to communicate efficiently in online classes
Modi’s COVID-19 vaccine turnaround: An answer for Supreme Court queries just in time
The bench of judges Chandrachud, Rao and Bhat have already asked the Union government to review the vaccination policy and file an affidavit by …
Gujarat's pastoral communities struggling for awareness, infrastructure to combat second COVID-19 wave
The nomadic pastoral communities cannot afford to remain in their houses even during a pandemic
South African case study sheds light on how vaccine manufacturing can be developed
Additional costs made it harder for local companies to break even and recover working capital
Interested in vaccine rollouts across Africa? Here’s a map to guide you
A map that will be updated daily, showing how many people have been vaccinated across the continent
Lateral Thoughts: We are dealing with a genius virus
The nuts and bolts of virus variants and why SARS-CoV-2 is different from other vaccine preventable viral diseases
90% efficacy for Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is striking. But we need to wait for the full data
Important questions remain: It’s unclear how long protection will last and if the vaccine protects against severe disease
HPV vaccine deaths: Parliament panel indicts PATH, health officials
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded agency bypassed ethics and rules while conducting clinical trials for vaccine which was administered to …
Africa eradicates polio, but vaccine-driven outbreaks rise
In Asia, India too was declared polio-free in 2014, but cVDPV was reported 50 times in the country in the past six years
Govt neither denies nor accepts adverse event in Serum Institute COVID-19 vaccine trial
Health secretary claims all procedures followed but refuses to divulge details
Simply Put: COVID-19 vs climate change
The Americas declared free of measles
The region is the first in the world to eliminate measles
Shortage of cholera vaccines forces WHO to shift to single-dose strategy
More people can be immunised with the temporary single dose
India administered more COVID-19 vaccine doses than the US
However, only 4% of the Indian population has got both doses so far
Exempt COVID-19 vaccines from GST: Naveen
Odisha CM also seeks for states share of cess, surcharges that Centre collects
Coronavirus update: Covaxin works against ‘double mutant’, claims ICMR
Covishield to cost Rs 600 a jab at private hospitals
Simply Put: The vaccine
Is the COVID-19 vaccine story over?
India claims vaccines are no longer an issue in the battle against COVID-19, but a host of developing nations would disagree
Decoding dengue: India’s first prospective DNA vaccine against disease is promising; but challenges lie ahead
Developing an effective vaccine against dengue is tricky because it is caused by four closely related viruses called serotypes; an ideal vaccine …
COVID-19: It’s time to look at the finer details of South Africa’s pandemic picture
The current resurgence driven by the Delta variant finally appears to be subsiding in all nine provinces
Long COVID stemmed from mild cases of COVID-19 in most people, according to a new multicountry study
Long COVID is defined as the continuation or development of symptoms three months after the initial infection from SARS-CoV-2
Ethiopia releases atlas to map livestock disease caused by the tsetse fly
African animal trypanosomosisis, caused by tsetse fly, is a huge problem for African livestock farmers
COVID-19: Time to watch out for BF.7
For almost a year now, omicron and its lineages and sub-lineages have dominated the global COVID-19 variant map