Tag: Covid 19 Vaccination Drive

New Delhi: With the chances of a COVID-19 vaccine being available soon increasing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the mobile technology will be used for mass inoculation against the pandemic. He also called for the timely roll-out of 5G or 5th generation mobile networks that can deliver multi-Gbps peak data speeds. Speaking at […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Central government expecting to roll out Covid-19 vaccine anytime soon, Odisha has come up with a slew of measures to ensure smooth implementation of the mass vaccination programme against Coronavirus. The Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das on Wednesday said that Odisha will follow the Central government’s guidelines to roll […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that the central government will bear the expenses of vaccinating nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first round and suggested that public representatives, a reference to politicians, should not be part of this initial exercise. Interacting with state chief ministers, Modi underscored the […]

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the mass inoculation drive across the country, the State Health and Family Welfare Department on Wednesday issued guidelines with regard to Covid-19 vaccination to be carried out from January 16 at around 160 sessions in different districts and Municipal Corporations in Odisha. The State has received 4.08 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine […]

Bhubaneswar: As soon as Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive across India at 10.30 am via video conference on Saturday, Odisha government too began its inoculation programme at 161 sites spread across 30 districts in the State. A total of 16,100 healthcare workers would receive the Covid-19 vaccine shot […]

New Delhi: The Union health Ministry on Thursday said that nearly ten lakh beneficiaries have been vaccinated till now, with no death following the vaccination drive. “A total of 9,99,065 beneficiaries vaccinated till 06:00 pm. No case of serious or severe adverse event following immunisation attributed to vaccination till date,” Health Ministry Additional Secretary Manohar […]

New Delhi: On day 7 of the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive, India on Friday inoculated as many as 2,28,563 healthcare and frontline workers, taking the toll of total beneficiaries who have been vaccinated to 12,72,097. “The Covid-19 vaccination programme was conducted successfully on the seventh day of the countrywide massive exercise. The cumulative number of […]

New Delhi: On the 11th day of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on Tuesday, only 5,615 healthcare and frontline workers were given the coronavirus vaccine. With this, the tally of those vaccinated across the country reached to over 20 lakh on Republic Day. As per the provisional report, 5,615 beneficiaries were vaccinated in five states – […]

New Delhi: India is the fastest country to reach the one million vaccination mark, the government said on Thursday, while also commending 11 states and Union Territories for the speed of their coverage. More than 25 lakh (2.5 million) people, including healthcare workers, have been vaccinated in the last 13 days, Union Health Secretary Rajesh […]

New Delhi: The most vulnerable age group of people in the country, those aged above 50 will get the first jab in March second week onwards, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed Parliament on Friday. The Health Minister said since the drive for the second phase to cover over 2 crore frontline workers is under […]

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has directed states and Union Territories to conclude the first dose administration of all frontline workers by March 6, officials said on Tuesday. Ministry officials said that they have communicated to all the states and Union Territories that vaccination for all frontline workers must be scheduled once by March […]

New Delhi: The Union government will begin vaccination drive for around 27 crore Indians above the age of 50 three weeks from now, Union Health Minister Harsh vardhan said on Monday. “Three weeks from now, the government will start giving doses of coronavirus vaccines to 27 crore persons above the age of 50,” he said […]

New Delhi: While the Central Government has geared up for the vaccination drive, more than 50 per cenr of India’s population has expressed caution towards taking the coronavirus vaccine, a survey revealed on Thursday. The survey holds importance at a time when questions are being raised on both the safety and efficacy of the vaccines […]

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday stressed the need for an expeditious COVID-19 vaccination drive to cover the entire target population estimated to be around 30 crore. “India’s COVID 19 pandemic growth has dropped to 2 per cent and case fatality rate is among the lowest in the world at 1.45 per […]