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TopicCoronavirus vaccine

Topic: coronavirus vaccine

Server hiccup, no slots, one crore people registered in 4 hrs — How CoWIN performed on day 1

Govt officials say the portal received 27 lakh hits per minute, adding they’re working round-the-clock to ensure it runs smoothly.

Rajasthan, which once topped Covid vaccination charts, is now left with stock for ‘just 3 days’

Daily vaccinations have dipped in Rajasthan from 5 lakh a fortnight ago to around 2 lakh now. Congress govt accuses Centre of not providing adequate supply of vaccines.

Modi govt in talks with Bharat Biotech to manufacture Covaxin in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu

Talks come at a time states and private hospitals claim there is a shortage of vaccines. The Rs 904 crore vaccine plant currently manufactures disinfectants and sanitisers.

India’s Covid vaccine export curbs will hurt poor countries more

India’s decision to pare back shipments threatens the Covax group’s plans to inoculate 2 billion people before the end of the year.

Over 6 cr Covid vaccine doses sent to 76 nations, 4.5 cr administered in India, says Vardhan

Addressing the media at Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan called for making the vaccination drive a Jan Aandolan (mass movement).

Delhi woman who turned 100 during pandemic gets Covid vaccine shot, says it was painless

Kamla Das was among many centenarians who were vaccinated in the past few days. Kewal Krishan, 107, & Tulsi Das Chawla, 104, — both born around Spanish Flu also recently took the jab.

Maharashtra allows Covid vaccination centres to operate 24×7 to speed up immunisation drive

So far, 21.25 lakh people have been inoculated against the viral infection in the state, a health official said Thursday.

Expect to see ‘something on Covid vaccines’ coming out of Quad summit, Blinken says

During a Congressional hearing, Secretary of State Tony Blinken said US is working to make sure that the country is a leading international actor in creating greater access to vaccines.

Covid vaccination approved for kin of armed forces personnel, veterans in service hospitals

The process is likely to commence next week after completion of registration of armed forces medical facilities on Co-WIN.

Global Covid vaccine plan can take a lesson from polio campaign

Polio triggered no pandemics, no economic crashes. Yet the large-scale campaign against what was once called infantile paralysis is arguably the closest precedent to today’s effort.

On Camera

Shah Rukh Khan’s India is about love, not hate. Chak De! India to My Name Is Khan

This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.