Covid vaccination drive for 15-18 age group begins today

Amid concerns over the highly transmissible Omicron variant, India has begun vaccinating the 15 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19 from today. As per reports, over 8 lakh teenagers have registered on the government’s CoWin portal, and they all will be administered a dose of Covaxin. It may be mentioned that the Union health ministry earlier said […]

Assam on Omicron scare: Vaccination drive for 15 to18 years from Jan 3, informs Keshab Mahanta

Assam is all set to start its fresh vaccine drive for underage people from January 3 onwards. Assam Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said that vaccine drives will be conducted in all colleges and schools in the state for people within the 15 to 18-year age category. Also Read: Omicron Scare: India records its first death […]

India’s cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeds 75 cr

With the administration of 78,66,950 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the last 24 hours, the country’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has surpassed the cumulative figure of 75.22 crores, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. According to the ministry, 75,22,38,324 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered so far as per provisional reports till 7 am […]

India’s cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage surpasses 74.38 cr

India’s cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage surpassed 74 crores, of which 53,38,945 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. “With the administration of 53,38,945 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, country’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage surpassed the cumulative figure of 74.38 crores (74,38,37,643) as […]

WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan lauds India for achieving 1 crore jabs

As India administered over 1 crore vaccine doses against COVID-19 on Friday until 10 pm, which is the highest vaccination that happened in a single day, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist, World Health Organization (WHO), congratulated the country for vaccinating 50 per cent of the adult population with the first dose. Dr Soumya Swaminathan tweeted, […]

India achieves highest single day COVID-19 vaccination mark; administers over 88.13 lakh doses in last 24 hours

With over 88.13 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the last 24 hours, India has achieved the highest single-day vaccination mark on Monday. “88 lakh India achieves the highest single-day record in #COVID19 vaccine doses. Yesterday will go down in the history of the world’s #LargestVaccineDrive. Congratulations [India],” Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted on […]

136 cr doses of Covishield, Covaxin to lead India’s COVID-19 vaccination programme between Aug-Dec

More than 136 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are expected to be available till the end of this year, informed the Centre. For the next four months, India’s vaccine programme will be accelerated by the Serum Institute of India’s (SII) Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. The note titled “Covid-19 Public Health Response Pro-active, Pre-emptive and Graded […]

India’s vaccination coverage crosses landmark of 34 crore

India’s cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage crossed the landmark of 34 crore on Friday. A total of 34,00,76,232 vaccine doses were administered till 7 am today, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) informed in a press release. In the last 24 hours, 42 Lakh vaccine doses were administered on the 167th day of the […]

COVID-19 vaccination drive reaches Arunachal’s remote village on India-China border

Battling the second wave of COVID-19, Arunachal Pradesh is trying to vaccinate its citizens rapidly, reaching even the remotest border village ‘Mago’ on the Indo-China Border in the State’s Tawang district. A two-day vaccination drive against Coronavirus was conducted for the villagers of Mago. The Tawang district administration and health department inoculated around 200 residents […]