According to official sources, a 75-day special drive will provide free precaution doses of the COVID vaccine to people aged 18 to 59 at government vaccination centres starting 15 July. The Union Health Ministry, in the first week of July, had ...
In India, 13,615 new Coronavirus infections were reported on Tuesday morning, while 1,31,043 active Coronavirus cases were recorded. Approximately 4,29,96,427 people have recovered from the disease, while 1.20 per cent of cases have died. How Does The Health Risks Increase With ...
There have been no COVID-19 deaths in Tamil Nadu due to an increase in vaccination and this has been a consolation amid rising cases, state Minister Ma Subramanian said on Sunday. After inspecting the mega vaccination camp here, which ...
On Monday, India reported 12,781 new cases of Covid-19 and 18 deaths. There are 76,700 active cases in the country, and the daily positivity rate has increased by over 4 per cent. India has tallied 4,33,09,473 cases and 5,24,873 deaths [1]. ...
The Kerala Health Department is gearing up to conduct a three-day COVID-19 vaccination drive exclusively for children from May 25. The objective of the drive was to vaccinate as many children as possible in view of the reopening of the schools ...
Africa was declared free of wild poliovirus just two years ago. Now, it's got a new outbreak on its hands. Mozambique reported its first case since 1992 on Wednesday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It's the second case to be ...
We all know a few of those lucky people who, somehow, have managed to avoid ever catching COVID. Perhaps you're one of them. Is this a Marvel-esque superpower? Is there any scientific reason why a person might be resistant to becoming ...
Vaccines are designed to prevent infection by preparing the body to resist foreign invaders (bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens). In all vaccines, a harmless piece of a particular bacteria or virus is introduced into the body, which produces an immune response. ...
There was a likelihood of COVID-19 cases increasing in June and July, and speeding up the vaccination drive against the infection was the best way ahead, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said here on Monday. He said the precaution dose ...
A new plant-based Covid-19 vaccine is nearly 70 per cent effective against symptomatic disease caused by five variants of the coronavirus, according to results of the human clinical trial of the preventive. The vaccine developed by researchers at Canadian biotechnology ...
People are 1,000 times more likely to get COVID-19 from the airborne viral particles they breathe than from the surfaces they touch, according to a study. The researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) in the US collected air and ...
The Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision on India's Covid vaccine policy that no one can be forced to take the vaccine and directed the central government to publish reports regarding vaccination's adverse effects. According to the Supreme Court, "bodily ...