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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicCovid vaccine boosters

Topic: Covid vaccine boosters

SubscriberWrites: Countries need to learn from history of vaccine inequality to contain Covid surge

Countries should move towards universal health care promised under SDG-3. The WHO-promoted pandemic treaty should be adopted to tackle future crises, writes Pragati Prava.

In leg-up to vaccination, SII’s Covovax on CoWin as heterologous booster, to cost Rs 225

Amid rising infection, SII had sought the inclusion of Covovax as a heterologous booster on the CoWin web portal last week.

As China forces India to mask up, study shows 64% still reluctant to take Covid booster dose

Only 28% of those surveyed have taken the booster shot; some said they were hesitant because the ‘vaccine caused heart attacks, strokes among young people’.

11% of 69 crore eligible people have taken Covid precaution dose, says govt, blames waning fear

Slight rise in precaution dose coverage after vaccines were made free but govt officials cite ‘Covid surge in many countries’ to emphasise need to increase uptake.

DCGI approval in, but here’s why you can’t choose Corbevax as your booster just yet

Corbevax was, over the weekend, approved for heterologous use as a Covid booster shot by apex drug regulator Drugs Controller General of India.

We can’t ‘boost’ our way out of the Covid pandemic for the long term

While the vaccine is effective at preventing severe disease, it is likely that boosters will become an annual shot. Here's the science behind it.

Charaka vow for doctors is disturbing. Some parts of Indian heritage belong only in history books

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28% eligible recipients won’t take Covid booster right away, 14% won’t go for it at all: Survey

Results based on national survey of 22,000 people conducted by social media community platform LocalCircles. It sought to know why people eligible for Covid booster dose hadn't taken it.

ZyCov-D a welcome addition to India’s vaccine basket. Follow the science on mixing boosters now

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On Camera

MCD is rounding up sterilised, friendly dogs just for optics—a moral and scientific failure

Since 1982, the resident dogs of JLN Stadium have peacefully coexisted with athletes, spectators, and staff. There hasn’t been a single recorded bite in over four decades.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.