Rwanda and Senegal will host Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine plants: What’s known so far

Only Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Africa have varying capabilities to produce and fill or finish vaccines

We know vaccines are the way out of COVID-19, but how are India’s numbers stacked

India is adding the most to the pandemic’s tally now; yet, the vaccination drive has lost steam before any significant gains

Lateral Thoughts: Healthy ageing was never so attractive

Accessing COVID-19 vaccine is logistically difficult for the old and sick  

How Rwanda is managing its COVID-19 vaccination rollout plans

It’s been over a year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. In an amazing feat of science and technology, a number of safe and effective …

COVID-19 vaccine update: People above 45 eligible for jabs from April 1

Ministry of Home Affairs releases updated guidelines for COVID-19 control

Pfizer withdraws application for Emergency Use Authorisation in India

The company will resubmit application after getting more data

COVID-19 vaccine: Oxford-AstraZeneca up to 90% effective in late stage trial

Adenovirus vaccine can be stored at 2-8°C; company to apply for emergency authorisation

Wealthy nations starved the developing world of vaccines. Omicron shows the cost of this greed

10 high-income countries will be sitting on more than 870 million excess doses by end of 2021

COVID-19: What will be a fair policy to distribute vaccine

No country is safe if only its own citizens are inoculated; the question of equitable distribution of a vaccine is as much a global concern as it …

COVID-19: Vaccine inequity persists as 2.8 billion people yet to receive even one dose

Low-income countries will also have to spend more to achieve 70% vaccination target

Vaccine hope

While Africa gets its first vaccine to fight malaria, India is still in the early stages of clinical trials

A granular look at UK’s COVID-19 ‘red list’ shows why it’s deeply flawed

Sudan is on the red list whereas South Sudan is not.  

Ghana first to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine for children

Vaccine was up to 80% successful in clinical trials 

India is preparing for another COVID-19 surge but low vaccine coverage leaves it vulnerable

So far less than 10% of the population is fully vaccinated

Simply Put: COVID-19 vaccinate the hare, vaccinate the tortoise

COVID-19 vaccines: African countries get very few doses at very high prices

Guinea, one of the lowest-income countries, has received just 25 doses 

In photos: Women leading poultry, livestock farming in rural Jharkhand

Poultry and livestock farming are a major source of income for those in rural Jharkhand, especially women, who are largely in charge of the …

Polio eradication: Africa to vaccinate 21 million children

This would be the continent’s largest polio vaccination campaign since 2020 

How do you vaccinate a honeybee? 6 questions answered about a new tool for protecting pollinators

Honeybees face many urgent threats, including Varroa mites, climate change and poor nutrition, which makes this vaccine an exciting new development

Nasal vaccines promise to stop the COVID-19 virus before it gets to the lungs – an immunologist explains how they work

While the exact mechanisms by which nasal vaccines work in people have not been thoroughly studied, researchers believe they work analogously to …

Why we must celebrate India’s indigenous HPV vaccine

Widespread and timely uptake of the new vaccine will save the lives of many Indian women by targeting a highly preventable and treatable disease

Monkeypox: demand for vaccines is outstripping supply – this is what’s causing the shortages

Vaccines currently being administered are from emergency stockpiles for accidental or deliberate release of smallpox

COVID-19 vaccines work well with all body weights BUT underweight, obesity remain risk factors

A group of UK researchers compare how those vaccinated from across various categories fared against the novel coronavirus  

Year(s) of the virus: Things we must not forget

The sheer power of the virus, our collective callousness, the sufferings of the working class... there are lessons to be learnt …

When will we reach herd immunity? Here are 3 reasons that’s a hard question to answer

It’s important to acknowledge it’s difficult to pin down a single magic number for herd immunity from COVID-19