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Topic: Covid vaccines

India seeks ‘essential two-way travel’ to China, raises concern over denial of visas

According to MEA, even the Indian nationals who want to visit China and have met Beijing's vaccination criteria haven’t been given visas yet.

Jharkhand reports highest vaccine wastage, Kerala, Bengal record negative wastage in May

According to govt data, Covid vaccination numbers in May were less than in April as 8.9 crore inoculations were done, 9 crore vaccines were utilised and closing balance was 80.8 lakh.

AstraZeneca vaccine linked to slightly higher risk of low platelet count, study says

The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, says Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine carries a slightly increased risk of a drop in platelet count and blood clots in arteries.

SAD holds sit-in near Punjab health minister’s residence, seeks his dismissal from cabinet

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal accused the Congress-led govt of ‘making money’ by selling vaccine to private hospitals and asked the CM to dismiss Balbir Singh Sidhu.

Be self-reliant for Covid vaccine as Modi govt fighting for blue tick, says Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi's remark came a day after outrage over the removal of 'blue tick' from the Twitter accounts of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and RSS top functionaries.

Older people may need 3rd shot to stay protected against Delta Covid variant: Lancet study

UK study says single-dose recipients of Pfizer vaccine are likely to be less protected against 3 coronavirus variants of concern —  B.1.617.2 (India), B.1.351 (South Africa) and B.1.1.7 (UK).

Branded ‘vaccine jihadi’, Aligarh nurse says she didn’t give fake shots, calls it conspiracy

Aligarh nurse Niha Khan booked for allegedly not administering Covid vaccines at public health centre, she claims colleagues & authorities are trying to cover up vaccine wastage.

Adar Poonawalla thanks Biden, Jaishankar for policy change to boost Covid vaccine production

Confident of the availability of Covid vaccines in the US, the Biden administration has removed Defense Production Act priority ratings on AstraZeneca, Novavax and Sanofi vaccines.

Govt developing ‘vaccine passport’ with Portugal firm, digital ID that may be future of travel

A mobile health passport or vaccine passport is a digital identification that allows free movement of fully vaccinated people during the pandemic.

Gender gap in vaccine worse than India’s sex ratio: Only 867 women got Covid shot per 1,000 men

Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Himachal Pradesh are the only three states where the percentage of women being vaccinated is higher than that of men.

On Camera

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.