The state higher secondary council will set up isolation facilities in each of the 6,800 centres where the school-leaving exams will be held in-person in April. “Exams will be held offline for ...

The school still has students of Class IX and half of Class X left to vaccinate. “Many have taken the jab privately. We have sent out word among the guardians and are waiting for an estimate of ...

The Bengal government has directed all districts to launch a special drive to give second doses of Covid-19 vaccine to over 25 lakh people who are yet to take their last jab though their due-date has ...

Bharat Biotech on Wednesday said a study has demonstrated that a booster dose of Covaxin has a neutralising effect on the Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19. The study conducted at Emory Universi...

The booster or precaution dose against Covid for healthcare workers, frontline workers and those 60 years and above with comorbidities starts on Monday. In Kolkata, all 141 health clinics of the Kolk...

At Lakshmipat Singhania Academy in southwest Kolkata’s Alipore, 75 students each of classes XI and XII have been given one-and-a-half hour each for the jab. “On the first day, we kep...

At school, students of each batch comprising 10 to 15 were asked to wait in a spacious room maintaining physical distancing norms before being called for vaccination one by one. The parents were waiti...

The Union health ministry on Monday dismissed media reports alleging that expired vaccines are being administered in the country under its COVID-19 vaccination programme as "false and misleading&...

At Sakhawat Memorial, about 90 per cent of the Class XI students scheduled to get the jab on Monday gave their consent by Sunday evening, said headmistress Papia Singha Mahapatra. The students have b...

The CoWIN platform has till Sunday evening recorded over six lakh registrations in the age group of 15 to 18 years whose Covid vaccination is set to begin from January 3. Union Health Minister Mansuk...