Covid-19 vaccination: From side effects to digital certificate, things to know before taking second dose

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India has started administering 2nd dose of Covid-19 vaccine on February 13. (IE Image) India started with administering its 2nd dose of Covid-19 vaccine to its health and front-line workers who had already received their first dose. As of Monday, over 9.5 lakh beneficiaries were administered their follow up dose. The second dose is as … Read more

How India’s Covid 19 vaccination drive can benefit against diabetes, cancers, cardiovascular diseases

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While India has managed to address the vaccine doses issue, key challenges were the training of a huge task force, managing the logistics, cold chain, which are pivotal for such vaccination program. As India has commenced the world’s largest vaccination programme for Covid-19, the challenges for the Narendra Modi government to cope up with the … Read more

Covid 19 vaccination and challenges in India: Ahead of world’s largest vaccine drive, medical experts explain what to expect

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Covid 19 vaccine in India: Covid 19 vaccines are being transported to all states and UTs (Image courtesy – AIR News Ladakh-Prasarbharti Twitter) Covid vaccination in India: People in India are eagerly waiting for the World’s largest Covid vaccination drive, scheduled to commence on January 16. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally launch the … Read more

Covid-19 vaccine emergency use authorisation soon? SEC meets to consider Pfizer, Serum, Bharat Biotech requests

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Coronavirus Covid 19 vaccine emergency use authorisation: (Reuters/Representational Photo) Covid-19 vaccine emergency use authorisation: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Wednesday that the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) in Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) held a meeting to consider the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) request of Pfizer, Serum Institute of India (SII) … Read more