New Delhi: With the mass vaccination drive across the country likely to kick-start soon, the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday asked people not to download or register on several fraudulent applications named ‘CoWIN’ which are available on app-stores. “Some apps named ‘CoWIN’ apparently created by unscrupulous elements to sound similar to the upcoming official platform […]
New Delhi: Ahead of the roll-out of coronavirus vaccine in a few days, another dry-run will be conducted across the country on January 8. The Central Government is gearing up for the roll-out of COVID19 vaccine across the country. Union Health Ministry has been pro-actively carrying out the preparations for roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine, in […]
Bhubaneswar: Ahead of its nation-wide rollout on January 16, the much-awaited COVID-19 vaccine is expected to reach Odisha in the next couple of days. State Health department officials on Monday said that the COVID-19 vaccine is likely to reach at least two-three days before the launching of the mass immunization drive in the State. “We […]
Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the nation-wide roll-out of the much-awaited COVID-19 vaccine, a new type of cyber crime has now come as a major concern for various law enforcing agencies across the country. The Commissionerate Police in Odisha too has warned public to remain alert so that they do not fall victim to the new type […]
Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 vaccination drive launched in Odisha on Saturday, along with the rest of the country, as part of a mega nation-wide immunization drive against the coronavirus. Biranchi Naik, a Class IV staff at the Capital Hospital became the first Covid warrior in the State to take the jab of the COVID-19 vaccine in […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported one more COVID-19 death on Saturday, the day which saw the nation-wide rollout of the much-awaited vaccine by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As per State Health and Family Welfare Department, a 43 years old male Covid positive patient of Sundergarh district died in the past 24 hours, taking the COVID-19 death toll […]
Bhubaneswar: In an effort to accelerate the vaccination process against Covid-19, the Odisha Health Department has decided conduct five sessions in each medical college from tomorrow. As per Bijay Panigrahi, the Director of Odisha Health Department, all the medical colleges in Odisha will inoculate 1000 persons each in a day spread in five sessions, making […]
London: In a startling revelation, European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said that hackers have manipulated stolen Covid-19 vaccine data in an attempt to “undermine trust” in the vaccines. The ongoing investigation of the cyberattack on EMA found that some of the unlawfully accessed documents related to Covid-19 medicines and vaccines have been leaked on the […]
Pune: At least five persons suffocated to death as a major fire broke out in an under-construction building in a plant of global vaccine giant, the Serum Institute of India (SII), here on Thursday afternoon, shocking the country. Health Minister Rajesh Tope and Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol announced that five persons, including one woman, had […]
Islamabad: The Pakistan government has approved Russias Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine for “emergency use authorisation” (EUA) and also gave a go-ahead to a local pharmaceutical company for its import and distribution, an informed official has confirmed. The Sputnik V has become the third vaccine to be approved for emergency use in the country — the […]
London: The Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine showed 76 per cent efficacy against symptomatic infection for three months after a single dose, with protection maintained to the second dose, the pharmaceutical company said on Wednesday. The primary analysis of the Phase 3 clinical trials, published as a preprint in The Lancet, also showed that with an inter-dose […]
Bhubaneswar: The second round of Covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Odisha kicked off on Monday. The healthcare workers will be receiving the second dose of vaccine, 28 days after getting the first jab. Additional Chief Secretary of the State Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) department, PK Mohapatra stated, “The second dose of the […]
New York: The South African variant of Covid-19 may significantly reduce antibody protection from the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, as per a laboratory study, the pharmaceutical companies said. However, human trials are still to be conducted in this regard. According to the study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, although the results indicated a reduction […]
New Delhi: The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to healthcare and frontline workers in the country has crossed 1.19 crore, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday. A total of 1,19,07,392 vaccine doses have been administered through 2,53,434 sessions till 6 pm on Tuesday, according to a provisional report. The beneficiaries include 64,71,047 […]
New Delhi: As the country gears up to inoculate people above 60 years of age and those over 45 with comorbidities against COVID-19 from March 1, official sources on Thursday said these beneficiaries would be able to register themselves on the Co-WIN platform from Monday itself. There will also be a walk-in provision for the […]
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