Health ministry officials say plan to bring it under nation’s Universal Immunisation Programme stays shelved, mainly due to reasons related to funds and concern around side-effects.
A working group set up under National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization has been tasked with carrying out risk-benefit and cost analyses of introducing the vaccine.
Voluntary vaccination in India has largely been limited to affluent sections of society , but doctors say attitudes are changing as people have seen difference Covid vaccines can make.
A universal vaccination programme requires mobilisation at an unprecedented scale. A battle-weary govt system will be under tremendous pressure to do it alone.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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