In the middle of last year, the World Health Organisation began promoting an ambitious goal, one it said was essential for ending the pandemic: fully vaccinate 70 per cent of the population in every c...

As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question looms large: how soon before they need yet another shot? Not for many mont...

Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines aren’t just preventing infections with the contagious Omicron variant —  they’re also keeping infected Americans from e...

A booster shot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine significantly raises the level of antibodies that can thwart the omicron variant, the company announced on Monday. The news arrives as omicron rapidl...

A growing body of preliminary research suggests the Covid vaccines used in most of the world offer almost no defence against becoming infected by the highly contagious omicron variant. All vaccines s...

The Union health ministry on Wednesday asked states to keep Omicron-positive patients in designated facilities to prevent cross-infections amid confirmations from multiple foreign labs that the new va...

The government has moved back one step from its insistence that it wouldn’t allow booster Covid-19 shots by declaring it will let scientists take a final call on whether they are needed or not. ...

India's government will not buy COVID-19 shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, three government sources told Reuters, mainly because domestic output of more affordable and easier-to-store vaccin...

As on September 1, 2021, India had fully vaccinated 15,07,81,981 people — around 10.8 per cent of the population — as per data from the Union health ministry. This suggests that we have a ...

Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) said on Thursday its Covid-19 shot was about 93% effective through six months after the second dose, showing hardly any change from the 94% efficacy reported in its original clini...