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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
TopicCovid vaccine

Topic: Covid vaccine

Seed funding cancelled & the ghost of ‘Howdy Trump’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Panel formed by Siddaramaiah finds no link between COVID-19 vaccines & Hassan cardiac-related deaths

Expert team, headed by Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences & Research head, has instead said that vaccine has shown to be ‘protective’ against cardiac events.

AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine worldwide, cites commercial reasons

Firm says vaccine has been superseded by updated ones that fight new variants & is no longer being made, supplied. Earlier, it had said its vaccine can cause a rare, dangerous side effect.

How safe is AstraZeneca Covid vaccine & why there is no need to panic — some key questions answered

51 cases have been lodged in a UK court against biopharma company over claims that its Covid vaccine caused death and injury in several cases.

AstraZeneca reaffirms Covid vaccine’s safety amid rare side effect concerns

AstraZeneca recently acknowledged that its Covid vaccine Covishield & Vaxzevria 'can, in very rare cases, cause Thrombosis Thrombocytopenia Syndrome'.

WHO introduces new parallel process to speed up COVID-19 vaccine, medicine approvals

WHO's current recommendation development and prequalification (PQ) or Emergency Use Listing (EUL) assessment processes are being expedited for COVID-19 products.

India records 628 fresh Covid-19 cases, active caseload jumps to 4,054, says Health Ministry

Number of people who have recuperated from the disease has risen to 4.44 crore while national recovery rate stands at 98.81%, according to health ministry website.

Hungarian and US scientists win Nobel Prize in Medicine for mRNA Covid vaccine work

Scientists Katalin Kariko & Drew Weissman from Hungary and US respectively won the prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.

$2.6 billion of Covid vaccine scheme for world’s poorest left to spend as pandemic wanes

The COVAX Initiative is set to wind up this year and the organisations running it, as well as respective donors, are planning on ways to utilise the remaining money.

US Covid vaccine requirement for international travellers to end May 11, says White House

The process will aim to end vaccination requirements for Head Start educators, CMS-certified healthcare facilities, and certain noncitizens at the land border.

On Camera

We celebrate Harappa excavation—and dismiss Keeladi, Sinauli archaeological digs as politics

In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.

Naidu matches Jagan’s Rs 13L crore investment playbook, with a ‘speed of doing business’ caveat

Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.