The Covid-19 vaccination drive in India will begin on January 16, the Union government said on Saturday evening, following a high-level meeting led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the pandemic situ...

The second dry run for Covid vaccination will be held on Friday across 23 districts of Bengal. Each district will have three vaccination centres. The first dry run was restricted to three centres in ...

Amid reports of the Covid-19 vaccine’s rollout in the country soon, Bengal’s first dry run of the vaccination process was held at three places in North 24-Parganas on Saturday.  At e...

At Medinirai Medical College and Hospital, as the nervous nurse held the syringe during the dry run for administering a vaccine on Saturday, the health officer asked her to hold it straight, and at a ...

The Indian government is making all efforts to support and promote the development of Covid-19 vaccine, however, there is a need to strengthen cold chain logistics and remove vaccine hesitancy, expert...

A notification issued by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated that the Jharkhand government on Tuesday had halved the price for Covid-19 tests across the state, through RT-PCR at private facilitie...

Bengal will start training senior health officials in various districts from Thursday on how to handle cold chains after the Centre on Tuesday asked state governments to ramp up infrastructure to stor...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said during a videoconference of chief ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Bengal government was ready with manpower and infrastructure to carry out Covid-1...

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The head of India’s apex health research agency said on Tuesday that both indigenous vaccine candidates against the coronavirus disease had completed phase 1 safety studies and were undergoing p...