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Topic: Vaccination

PM Modi to launch Covid vaccination drive with two-way live webcast on 16 January

The Union Ministry of Health is tight-lipped about the launch, states are busy making preparations for the programme as India prepares to start the Covid vaccination drive.

Who all will get vaccines free? When will they hit stores? 4 Covid questions on every mind

PM Modi has stated the provision of free vaccine to 3 crore priority beneficiaries. But that has left the question open for the other 27 crore.

US officials ask residents to use party-invite sites to sign up for Covid vaccine

The effort to inoculate Americans has overwhelmed US government websites. Many local governments are consigning patient appointments to web-based services.

Covid vaccination drive based on election process, planned to poll booth level, says govt

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has said that over 96,000 vaccinators have been trained for the Covid immunisation drive so far.

40 minutes, 3 centres, medical teams on standby — How Delhi held its Covid vaccine dry run

Dry run was conducted across the country, primarily to test the CoWin portal, which will be used to register beneficiaries during the actual drive. 

Sanitation workers were at forefront of Covid fight. But are missing from vaccination plan

India's solid waste management workers had no choice but to enter containment zones and handle bio-medical waste. Hundreds of them are Covid infected.

Covid-19 vaccination drive to be done through mobile technology, says PM Modi

Speaking at the India Mobile Congress, PM Modi said mobile technology has enabled benefits worth billions of dollars to reach the deserving during the pandemic.

India will get Covid vaccine at less than Rs 730 per dose, health secretary says

Health secretary briefs opposition leaders at all-party meeting. Leaders express concerns over infrastructure and resources in place to roll out Covid vaccine in India.

Airlines face ‘mission of the century’ in shipping Covid vaccines

Laid low by a Covid outbreak that’s decimated passenger demand, airlines will be the workhorses of the attempt to eradicate it, hauling billions of vials of vaccine across the globe.

More good news on Covid vaccine – Moderna shot found to be 94.5% effective in large study

The highly positive Moderna readout comes just a week after Pfizer's Covid vaccine was found to be more than 90% effective in an interim analysis.

On Camera

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.