In 2021, companies and governments announced new vaccine policies, requiring people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to attend office, dine out, shop at malls or attend gatherings. In the l...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation will begin anti-rabies vaccination and neutering of street dogs from June, deputy mayor Atin Ghosh said on Friday. A Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) official said a ...

Pharmaceuticals firm Biological E. Ltd (BE) on Monday said it has reduced the price of its COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax to Rs 250 from Rs 840 a dose, inclusive of GST, for private vaccination centres. I...

Relaxing norms for Covid vaccine precaution dose, the Centre on Thursday allowed citizens travelling overseas to get the shot before the stipulated nine-month waiting period as required by the guideli...

Authorities in at least a dozen Bengal districts have recently informed the state health department to stop supplying Covishield — a vaccine that aims to protect against the Covid-19 infection &...

A global vaccine development coalition has decided to fund an India-Australia-Switzerland  research consortium to create a novel so-called “variant-proof” coronavirus vaccine for broa...

The first World Trade Organization meeting to discuss a draft agreement to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for Covid -19 vaccines went "very well", its chair said on Friday. ...

A new plant-based COVID-19 vaccine is nearly 70 per cent effective against symptomatic disease caused by five variants of the coronavirus, according to results of the human clinical trial of the preve...

Covid cases are back in the twin townships. The state health department has started a survey to detect any spike in the number of Covid-19 cases across the state and both Salt Lake and New Town are un...

More people are queuing up for Covid vaccination than a fortnight before. However, the number is still nowhere near what it used to be when the first dose was being administered in 2021, said official...