The Union Health Ministry is expected to soon approve Biological E's Corbevax as a precaution dose for people above 18 years who are double vaccinated with either Covishield or Covaxin, official s...

A government panel on Covid immunisation has recommended allowing Biological E's Corbevax as a precaution dose for adults fully vaccinated with either Covishield or Covaxin, official sources said ...

The health department-run as well as the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and NKDA-run vaccine centres are administering booster doses for the Covid-19 vaccines for free to people aged between 18 and...

In West Bengal, over 2.6 lakh people took their Covid precaution shot on Friday. The number of people taking vaccines — precaution and first two doses together — had averaged around 89,00...

Several private hospitals in the city on Thursday received queries from people who were keen to take their Covid booster doses after the Centre reduced the gap between the second and the third doses f...

The rising number of COVID-19 cases in West Bengal, particularly in Kolkata and its neighbouring districts, is due to the casual attitude of people who have dumped the safety protocol, medical experts...

Many people eligible for the Covid vaccine booster dose have not taken the shot because they said they had not received any message from the CoWIN app after the completion of nine months from the seco...

Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) on Friday announced that its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin has proven to be safe, well-tolerated and highly immunogenic in paediatric subjects in phase II/III st...

The administration of Covaxin as a booster dose enhances vaccine effectiveness against Covid-19's Delta variant and gives protection against Omicron variants BA.1.1 and BA.2, a study by ICMR and B...

Covid vaccination centres in the city are witnessing a low turnout for booster doses, officials running the centres have said. The scene has been the same at the centres run by the Kolkata Municipal ...