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No politics, followed scientific advice on Covid-19 vaccine, says PM Modi

In an interaction with beneficiaries from his constituency, PM assures both vaccines safe

Govt running rapid assessment system for feedback on Covid-19 vaccination

The Ministry of Electronics and IT on Friday said the government is using a rapid assessment system developed by it for the feedback on COVID vaccination.

No request received from Pakistan for coronavirus vaccines: MEA

India is undertaking commercial supplies of the doses to a number of countries, including Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil and Morocco.

Over 1.27 mn healthcare workers received Covid-19 vaccine jabs till Friday

Over 12.7 lakh healthcare workers have received COVID-19 vaccine jabs in the country till the evening of the seventh day of the nationwide immunisation as per a provisional report

India will also be a role model on how to vaccinate a billion: Nilekani

The founding architect of Aadhaar expects the country to have surplus Covid vaccines in the next six months. He also wants everybody to be issued a vaccination certificate

India will be role model on vaccinating billion people at scale: Nilekani

Nilekani is the architect of India's Aadhaar ID system

Coronavirus: What we know so far about India's vaccination drive

Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the beneficiaries and vaccinators in Varanasi via videoconference to share their first-hand experience

PM trashes politics over vaccine, says he went by scientists' advice

Modi on Friday said the call on launching vaccines was taken by scientists

Three Maharashtra govt agencies launch probe in Serum Institute fire

A probe is on to ascertain the cause of the blaze that killed five workers at Serum Institute of India's premises here

13,000 volunteers given 2nd Covaxin dose in phase-3 trials: Bharat Biotech

Covaxin has received emergency use approval from India's drug regulator on a 'clinical trial mode'

Bharat Biotech first Indian Covid vaccine maker to get peer-reviewed data

There were no serious side effects in the participants enrolled for the phase 1 trials, according to the results published in The Lancet

Forensic team visits Serum Institute's Manjari plant to probe fire incident

The forensic team visited the incident site to collect samples for investigation

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Biden unveils the national plan Trump ignored

One Covid death a minute in Mexico, Philippines passes bill on new Covid-safe greeting, WHO platform for pharma cos unused since Covid began, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

India Coronavirus Dispatch: National turnout for shots lacklustre so far

Health conditions that won't hamper vaccination, virus more likely to spread by air than surfaces, and how vaccines work-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

Doctors, health workers' approval sends 'strong message' about vaccine: PM

Varanasi is Modi's Lok Sabha constituency

Over 1 million beneficiaries vaccinated against Covid-19 so far

India began its vaccination drive last week

WHO expects 100 million global Covid-19 cases by January end

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said vaccines have the potential to bring the pandemic under control

Death toll from Covid-19 in Germany surpasses 50,000, caseload at 2,106,262

More than 1.7 million people have recovered since the start of the outbreak

DATA STORY: Covid vaccination in India tops 1 mn; 0.075% of population inoculated

India on Thursday conducted 800,242 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 190,148,024. The test positivity rate recorded was 1.8%

Covid-19: India records 14,545 new cases, death toll reaches 1,53,032

There are 1,88,688 active coronavirus infections in the country which comprise 1.78 per cent of the total caseload