Sir — It beats reason that the Indian Council of Medical Research has allegedly set a deadline to some Indian companies to fast-track human trials of some possible coronavirus vaccines so that t...

India’s health research agency has asked doctors in 12 hospitals to “fast-track” clinical trials on a candidate vaccine against Covid-19 with the “target” of making it av...

Dozens of clinical trials registered on an American database and listing India among their sites for enrolment of patients are missing from India’s own database of trials, a study has revealed, ...

India will prioritise healthcare workers and vulnerable people to be among the earliest recipients of any vaccines against the coronavirus disease, officials said on Tuesday. Vaccines would also be ma...

A strain of the new coronavirus, isolated in a government lab in Pune and killed with chemicals, will be India’s first home-grown candidate vaccine against Covid-19 to head into human safety and...

AstraZeneca’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine is probably the world’s leading candidate and most advanced in terms of development, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) chief scientist...

The first vaccine against the new coronavirus disease to reach human clinical trials is safe and able to generate an immune response against the virus, Chinese researchers announced on Friday.The scie...

Speaking to the nation last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched the pandemic and the economic crisis as opportunities for India to turn “atmanirbhar” (self-reliant). The finance minister, N...

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 Indoor pollution is a major factor that triggers influenza, doctors and public health specialists said during an interaction on Saturday.Vaccination can prevent influenza but the focus should al...