India Vaccine

COVID-19 update: 'Beg, borrow or steal but provide oxygen', Delhi HC tells Centre; fresh curbs in Maharashtra

India saw another record high of 2,95,041 new COVID cases and 2,023 deaths on Wednesday, and the oxygen crisis appeared to have intensified with complaints of shortage from several states

COVID vaccine: Centre claims India fastest country to administer 13 crore doses as nation reports 2.95 lakh new cases

According to the health ministry, the US took 101 days to administer 13 crore doses of the vaccine, while China took 109 days to cross the same number

Coronavirus Updates: Uttar Pradesh to vaccinate all over 18 years for free from 1 May, announces Yogi Adityanath

Coronavirus LIVE Updates: The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by the chief minister. Adityanath said that the state will bear the cost of its free vaccination programme entirely

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh tests positive for COVID-19, admitted to Delhi AIIMS

Sources told PTI that the 88-year old Congress veteran had a mild fever in the morning and later tested positive. Singh has also taken both the doses of the COVID-19 vaccine

Kerala announces free COVID-19 vaccine for all, but advises caution amid ongoing local body polls

Kerala chief minister Pinarayai Vijayan, however, said that the quantity of COVID-19 vaccine that would be allotted to the state by the Centre was not yet known

DCGI shares draft guidelines for pharma giants manufacturing, distributing COVID-19 vaccines

Dr Balram Bhargava, Director-General of ICMR said, "There are three things for a vaccine--(i) the safety, (ii) immunogenicity, and (iii) the efficacy."

India's vaccine scenario: A success story marred with regulatory lapses

Though the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare has a National Vaccine Policy document, it does not address all the problems associated with UIP.