Surveillance medical officer of WHO in Daltonganj, Walema Devgam, UNICEF regional coordinator Manish Priyadarshi and district programme manager health Deepak Kumar will hold a joint inquiry into the a...

The state health department and the Calcutta Municipal Corporation are not relying solely on text messages to bring health workers to vaccination sites, but are also calling them up to try and push up...

India is in danger of being sucked into the “vaccination wars” that have broken out between the EU and the UK. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby tweeted: “The European Union...

The Nuapada district administration in Odisha has sacked three security guards of a hospital and issued showcause notices to 14 others after they staged a protest demanding adequate financial assistan...

Europe’s medicine regulator on Friday approved the AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18, the third vaccine to be cleared for use in the EU. &...

A senior doctor in the city posted in a WhatsApp group of the residential complex where he stays: “I received the Covid-19 vaccine today.” The response came soon and from many neighbours,...

India’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, generates immune responses against the fast-spreading coronavirus variant from the UK, scientists said on Wednesday after a study that they say shoul...

Moderna’s vaccine is effective against new variants of the coronavirus that have emerged in Britain and South Africa, the company announced on Monday. But it appears to be less protective agains...

More than 4,600 health workers were vaccinated against Covid-19 in Calcutta on Monday, the city’s highest daily count since the vaccination was launched across the country on January 16. Also o...

As millions are inoculated against the coronavirus, and the pandemic’s end finally seems to glimmer into view, scientists are envisioning what a postvaccine world might look like — and wha...