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Nearly 9,500 people get Covid jabs on Thursday in Delhi; turnout 51%

Nearly 9,500 healthcare workers received COVID-19 vaccine shots in Delhi on Thursday in the third week of the inoculation drive, with a turnout of more than 51 per cent.

Aviation workforce shrank by 39,000 in April-Sept due to Covid-19: Ministry

Highest impact seen in employment at airports which shed 19,247 employees during this period

Second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to be administered from Feb 13

The second dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine will be administered to healthcare workers from February 13, the Centre said on Thursday, highlighting that 45 per cent of them have been inoculated so far.

Coronavirus LIVE: No new case in 47 districts in last 3 weeks, says govt

Coronavirus live updates: Globally, nearly 105 million people have been infected by the virus and the death toll stands at 2,276,303

97% of 512,000 surveyed vaccine recipients satisfied with process: Govt

India began its Covid-19 vaccination drive last month

India fastest to vaccinate 4 million against Covid-19: Health ministry

India has become the fastest country in the world to reach the 4 million COVID-19 vaccination mark, achieving this feat in 18 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

Sputnik-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trials to start in Azerbaijan, MidEast

AstraZeneca said in December it would start clinical trials to test combining the two vaccines to see if this could boost the efficacy of the British shot.

Biocon Biologics inks pact to expand access to its cancer biosimilars

Biocon Biologics is an arm of biotechnology major Biocon

DATA STORY: Nearly 90% Delhi cases now cured; Haryana recovery rate 2nd-best at 84%

A set of graphics tracking how the number of coronavirus positive cases have moved on a daily basis since India's total touched 100 on March 15

DATA STORY: Now, Kerala has the highest Covid caseload after Maharashtra

With 310,604 vaccinations on Wednesday, India has so far inoculated 4,449,552 people. That is 41.34 per cent of its total caseload, and 0.3206 per cent of its population

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Active cases below 200,000 for over two weeks

Updated efficacy data on Oxford vaccine, lockdown effect on unplanned pregnancies, doctors who died on Covid duty, and more-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

World Coronavirus Dispatch: No cheering, singing and handshakes at Olympics

New Zealand approves Pfizer vaccine, Denmark to launch coronavirus passports, Singapore WEF pushed to August over travel restrictions and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Serum Institute, UNICEF enter into long-term supply for Covid-19 vaccines

The UN children's agency said it will have access to up to 1.1 billion doses of vaccines for around 100 countries

Gulf Arab states launch new restrictions over rising coronavirus cases

With populations including largely young and healthy foreign labourers, many Gulf countries have avoided the higher death tolls seen elsewhere around the world

Iran to start receiving Covid-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca in Feb

Namaki also said that Iran's Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute has been authorized to start clinical trials of its vaccine candidate, and they will hopefully start the trials next week

Recovered Covid patients may need only one mRNA vaccine shot: Scientists

Scientists analysed mRNA vaccines which use segments of the viral genetic material to enable human cells to make the coronavirus spike proteins

Now, coronavirus UK strain shows concerning mutation: What you need to know

While all mutations found in emerging variants of coronavirus should be monitored, scientists are particularly interested in mutations occurring in its spike protein, specifically the RBD section

Covid-19: India records 12,899 new infections, 107 deaths in 24 hours

The death toll increased to 1,54,703 with 107 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed

Over 245,000 UP health workers to get vaccinated in next two days

The state has so far vaccinated 4,63,793 health workers of the total 6.71 lakh targeted till January 29. This is about 69 per cent coverage of the target

India to get around 97 million doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

As of now, Covax has not allotted the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for India.