Individuals who are on medication that affects their immune system are advised not to take Covaxin, the developer Bharat Biotech cautioned on Monday via a factsheet. The company strongly urged people to reveal to their immunization officers about any serious health-related conditions or allergies before getting the jab.  Bharat Biotech stated that people who are ...

Covishield vaccine: Three trucks carrying the Covishield vaccine left the Serum Institute of India building at 4:55 am IST, followed by a police escort vehicle to reach the Pune International Airport. The unloading started at the cargo terminal at around 5:30 am and they will be dispatched to 12 cities in India, The Hindustan Times reported.  The ...

Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine: After UK approved Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, India is likely to have its vaccine soon Britain’s approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use has given new hopes to India’s efforts to fight the rising cases in the country. As per media reports, Indian regulators are expected to hold further meetings in ...

New COVID-19 strain: More than 22 passengers flying from the United Kingdom to India have tested positive for Coronavirus Amid the alarming concerns over a new COVID-19 strain, at least 22 people who came to India from the United Kingdom over the past few days have tested positive for the disease.  As per media reports, ...

The Covid vaccine: As the United Kingdom on Wednesday became the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, Indians became excited to visit the country to get a shot of the vaccine.  A report revealed that as soon as the UK made the official announcement, travel agents started getting numerous calls of people ...

Serosurvey: By Friday morning India had crossed 93 lakh mark of Covid-19 cases and added 43,082 new cases in 24 hours. Death tally reached 1,35,715 with 492 new fatalities being added. Recovered patients have reached 87.18 lakh tally.  ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) conducted a second national serosurvey that shows over 70% of Indian ...

G-20 summit: Leaders from the G-20 summit came together virtually to discuss the key issues at hand over the weekend. The 15th annual G2O summit was organised by Saudi Arabia and inaugurated by Saudi king Salman with his speech, wherein he made an appeal that the G20 economies “must work to create the conditions for ...

Ahead of elections: With coronavirus in the picture, polling officials are trying to plan out the elections in a way that lets the infected section come for vote. The polling officials have revealed that the tricky area will be by GHMC where nearly 3,000 to 4,000 covid positive patients will be looking to cast their ...

New measures to tackle surge in Decovid cases: Delhi is fighting both toxic air and a record spike in the covid cases. Each year as winter approaches smog fills the Delhi sky. India has recorded more than 8.7 million the coronavirus cases, second in number to the United States. While new cases have fallen sharply ...

India to get first AYUSH-approved ayurvedic COVID-19 drug: YUSH Ministry has approved the manufacture of an ayurvedic drug for treatment of COVID-19 disease Dalmia Healthcare is all set to launch a polyherbal combination of 15 herbs called Astha-15 for the treatment of COVID-19 disease. Its research centre, Dalmia Centre for Research and Development (DCRD), has ...