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New Delhi: As India logged over 1,800 new Covid cases for the second consecutive day, taking the active caseload to over 10,000-mark, the Centre asked states and Union Territories to increase proportion of RT-PCR tests as well as booster…

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI ) has approved market authorisation to COVID-19 vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin, official sources…

Bhubaneswar: Amid a global Covid threat, a veteran health expert of the State today said there is no immediate threat of the Covid 19 disease to the State. Senior Medicine expert Dr Jayant Panda, while talking to media, said though the…

New Delhi: With the Centre giving a go-ahead for Sputnik Light to be used as a booster dose, nearly 650,000 people who took the first dose of Sputnik V will now be able to access the vaccine at private vaccination centres, people familiar…

New Delhi: The Centre on Friday announced that the precaution dose can now be administered to all those above the age of 18. The vaccination will begin from April 10 at private centres. Earlier, the government had started these booster…

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the three-tier elections to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Odisha, all government employees engaged in the poll duty will be administered booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine, sources in the State Election…

Washington: The Food and Drug Administration on Monday extended the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 booster shot to include teens aged 12 to 15, paving the way for them to be eligible for the jabs later this…

New Delhi: Hyderabad-based Biological E has got the Drug Controller General of India's nod to conduct trials of its vaccine Corbevax as booster shots. India has already rolled out its plan to administer booster doses, which is being…

Cuttack: In a major development, Booster dose will be administered to healthcare workers and 60+ population with co-morbidities in Cuttack from January 10, 2022 as Odisha government has started the process of mobilising resources to begin…

New Delhi: INSACOG, the country's top genome sequencing laboratories, on Saturday said more scientific experiments are required to assess the impact of a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine. This comes days after it recommended a booster…