Scientists have identified antibodies that are effective against many different SARS-CoV-2 variants, an advance that paves the way for next-generation vaccines which could protect from different COVID...

The government is actively considering doing away with a provision which requires international passengers to upload their Covid vaccine certificate or RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged people to take precaution or booster dose of vaccines against Covid-19. The PM made the appeal after virtually inaugurating a 250-bed multi-speciality h...

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 ...

Covid vaccination camps in different areas in Salt Lake, which were discontinued after several vaccinators had contracted Covid, are set to resume from Thursday. One such camp is slated to take place...

The number of children in Kolkata who have taken both doses of Corbevax is less than half of the total eligible population, civic officials said. Children between 12 and 14 years can take Corbevax fo...

The booster or precaution dose, she said, increases the antibody levels. Several private hospitals in Kolkata said most critical Covid patients had not taken three doses. Twenty patients were admitt...

Vaccine centres are also being run by the civic body at places like Matri Sadan in EE Block, where there has been a renewed interest among eligible people. “Till May, we barely had anyone coming...

The Salt Lake civic body has started a Covid vaccination drive.  More than 400 Covid vaccine shots have been administered in Salt Lake alone as part of the drive undertaken by the Bidhannagar Mu...

Private hospitals in Kolkata have been witnessing a jump in the demand for Covid vaccines since the Centre’s decision on Wednesday to reduce the gap between the second and the precaution dose fr...