The Covid-19 vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech offer strong protection against death from the Delta variant of the coronavirus, researchers said on Wednesday reporting the first ful...

The Oxford vaccine has received a vote of confidence from the British government, with Prof. Sarah Gilbert, one of the scientists behind its creation, recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours ...

British officials said on Friday people under 40 should be offered an alternative to Oxford/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine where possible because of a small risk of blood clots, given the low nu...

There is a link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain but the possible causes are still unknown, a senior official for the European Medicines Agency (EMA)...

A three-month interval between doses of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine results in higher vaccine efficacy than a six-week gap, according to a new study which says the first dose can offer up to 76 per ce...

The need for inoculation against Covid-19 as soon as possible cannot be denied. But no vaccine should be administered without the recipient’s trust and conviction that are based on full informat...

Two out of the 129 centres that have been set up in the state for administering the Covid-19 vaccine on Day One of its nationwide rollout on January 16 will have webcasting facilities for both central...

Sir — It is heartening to note that India is ready to use two coronavirus vaccines for emergency cases. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, Covishield, made in this country by the Serum Institute of...

Rolling out vaccines in the time of a raging pandemic in a nation as populous as India was bound to be accompanied by attendant challenges. But the lack of transparency and public anxiety regarding th...

Moments after the Drugs Controller General of India granted permission for the restricted emergency use of two vaccines in the country on Sunday, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma raised concern ove...