COVID-19 vaccine

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HM Amit Shah takes 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccine

9:36 pm March 1, 2021

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday took the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, officials said. Doctors from the Medanta hospital administered the vaccine to Shah, a Home Ministry official said. On August 2 last year, Shah, 56, had said on Twitter that he tested positive for COVID-19. He underwent treatment at Medanta […]

PM Modi takes first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS

1:33 pm March 1, 2021

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS here and appealed to all those who are eligible to get inoculated. Nurse P Niveda, who hails from Puducherry, administered Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN to the prime minister, sources said. ”Took my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine […]

COVID-19: Over 14,000 people vaccinated in Himachal Pradesh

11:38 pm January 27, 2021

Shimla : As many as 510 more people were administered the COVID-19 vaccine in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, a senior health official said. The total number of people vaccinated for COVID-19 in the state has now risen to 14,072, Special Secretary (Health) Nipun Jindal said, adding that the target for Wednesday was 649 and the percentage coverage is 78.5 […]

COVID-19 vaccination: 5,942 people receive shots on day 4 in Delhi; 24 cases of AEFI

10:45 pm January 21, 2021

New Delhi: Over 5,900 healthcare workers received the COVID-19 vaccine shots in Delhi on Thursday, the fourth scheduled day of the immunisation exercise in the national capital, according to data shared by officials. The number of people vaccinated on Thursday accounted for 73 per cent of the targeted figure of 8,100, according to the data, a marked […]

EU agency approves Moderna”s COVID-19 vaccine

7:41 pm January 6, 2021

Amsterdam: The European Unions medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.s COVID-19 vaccine, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging across the continent. The approval recommendation by the European Medicines Agencys human medicines committee — which must be rubber stamped by the EUs executive […]