COVID-19 vaccination

Rahul emphasises power of local languages

11:10 pm June 9, 2021

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hailed the power of local languages and stressed the need to conserve each one of them. His remarks came over a media report which said that scepticism about COVID-19 vaccination among tribal villagers in Maharashtra’s Melghat forest is being reversed with advocacy in the local Korku language. […]

BJP accuses Punjab govt of profiteering from vaccination

11:19 pm June 4, 2021

New Delhi: The BJP on Friday alleged that the Congress government in Punjab is profiteering from COVID-19 vaccination by selling vaccine doses procured under state quota to private hospitals at higher rates. Referring to media reports, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the Punjab government got over 1.40 lakh doses of Covaxin at Rs 400 each. […]

Family members can also be covered under workplace COVID-19 vaccination: Govt

11:56 pm May 22, 2021

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry Saturday announced that family members and dependents of workers can also be covered under the COVID-19 vaccination drive at industrial and workplace inoculation centres. In a letter to all chief secretaries, the Health Ministry said that for industrial and private workplace CVCs (COVID-19 vaccination centres), the vaccine doses will have to be procured […]

Daily COVID-19 vaccine coverage on lower side on Thursday due to Shivratri: Health ministry

11:59 pm March 11, 2021

New Delhi: The daily COVID-19 vaccination coverage was reported to be on the lower side on Thursday on the occasion of Mahashivratri, with 3,89,337 vaccine doses administered till 7 pm, the Union health ministry said. The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 2.60 crore, it said. A total of 2,60,73,517 vaccine doses […]

COVID-19: 37,223 more vaccinated in Maha; total 5,73,666

11:48 pm February 10, 2021

Mumbai: As many as 37,223 people,including more than 20,000 healthcare workers, were inoculated against COVID-19 in Maharashtra on Wednesday, said the state health department. With this, 5,73,666 beneficiaries have been inoculated in the state since the COVID-19 vaccination drive was launched on January 16. Out of the 37,223 people who received vaccine doses on Wednesday, […]

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