- Thursday, May 01, 2025
INDIA's Cipla Ltd has been granted new drug permission for restricted use of Moderna Inc's Covid-19 vaccine in the country, a senior government official said on Tuesday (29). It is the first internationally-developed vaccine and the fourth such jab to be approved in the country after Covaxin, Covishield and SputnikV. "New drug…
INDIA has administered more Covid-19 vaccine doses in the last two weeks than the number of people who signed up for shots during the period, government data showed on Tuesday (29), signalling improving supplies after widespread shortages. Indians struggled to book scarce inoculation slots after Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened…
JOHNSON & JOHNSON will not be undertaking local trials for its single-shot Covid-19 vaccine in India and is looking at ways to accelerate its availability in the country, the Economic Times reported on Tuesday (29), citing a company spokesperson. J&J said in April it was in talks with India's government…
THIS year's Twenty20 World Cup is set to be shifted to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to the Covid-19 situation in India, Indian cricket board sources told Reuters on Saturday (26). The pandemic swept the world's second-most populous nation last year, resulting in a lengthy shutdown. Infections have rocketed…
THE highly contagious Delta variant, first detected in India, is causing a surge in new Covid-19 cases even in countries with high vaccination rates, and experts warn that immunisation campaigns are in a race against time to contain it. Globally, the pandemic is still slowing down, with the WHO reporting…
India reported on Saturday (26) 48,698 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed. Death toll in the country due to the virus increased by 1,183. India's total tally of infections stand at 30,183,143 while the weekly positivity rate declined to 2.97 per cent,…
MORE corpses are washing up on the banks of the Ganges in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, as rains swell the river and expose bodies buried in shallow graves during the peak of the country's latest wave of coronavirus infections. Videos and pictures in May of bodies drifting…
US Vice President Kamala Harris visited a border patrol facility near the US-Mexico border on Friday (25), aiming to counter claims from Republicans she has been slow to visit the region as part of her role addressing the root causes of immigration. The trip, her first to the border since…
INDIA's richest state on Friday (25) ordered malls and cinema halls to close as it scrambles to control a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that has scuppered plans to ease lockdown measures. At least 20 cases in Maharashtra state have been found linked to the new Delta Plus variant…
INDIAN police said Friday (25) that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 -- some of them disabled -- may have suffered the same fate in a second major city. Vaccination rates rose sharply this week after the Indian government made shots free…
