Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday urged the G20 countries for starting timely discussions in the WTO on extending patent waiver for the production and supply of COVID-19 diagnost...

Covid vaccination is down to zero on several days at many hospitals across Kolkata, the first such drop since the inoculation drive started early last year. The poor demand has prompted the hospitals...

Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna's technology in order to make their own vaccine, according to med...

Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla Tuesday said his firm is conducting research to find a vaccine against monkeypox as cases rise in the country. Poonawalla is learnt to have briefed Union ...

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is quite versatile, with a large number of variants and subvariants. The omicron variant alone has more than 130 sublineages. In Europe, the omicron subvaria...

The Delhi government is running COVID-19 inoculation camps at high-footfall locations of the city such as metro stations, markets, malls and areas near wine shops to widen the vaccination coverage, of...

Several hospitals in the city are facing a shortage of Sputnik V, the Russian Covid vaccine, resulting in recipients making queries on the availability of the precaution or booster dose. Sputnik Ligh...

The head of India’s premier virus research institute said on Thursday the Covid precautionary doses were increasing the antibody levels in recipients and it was up to the Centre to decide whethe...

The Union health ministry’s decision to cut the gap between the second and third doses of the Covid-19 vaccines from nine to six months is welcome. Evolving scientific data, apparently, have mer...

Adults may opt for booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines six months after full immunisation with two doses, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday, announcing a change in the waiting time from the c...