New Delhi: Authorities have released a new vaccine-focused caller tune and replaced the voice of actor Amitabh Bachchan with a woman’s as India rolled out the world’s largest vaccination drive against the coronavirus on Saturday. The new caller tune seeks to spread awareness about the COVID-19 vaccination drive and dispel rumours. “Naya saal Covid-19 ki […]
New Delhi: Amid the rollout of the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination programme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, here are a few things that you need to know about the two vaccines — ‘Covaxin’ and ‘Covishield’ — selected by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI). So far, the government has procured 1.1 crore Covishield and […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the pan India rollout of COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16, 2021 at 10:30 AM via video conferencing. This will be the world’s largest vaccination program covering the entire length and breadth of the country. A total of 3006 session sites across all States and UTs will […]
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday that India is doing relatively well in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, besides speaking about the way forward – vaccines. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that 29,000 cold-chain points, 240 walk-in coolers, 70 walk-in freezers, 45,000 ice-lined refrigerators, 41,000 deep freezers and 300 solar […]
New Delhi: Vaccinating 100-200 people in each session per day, monitoring them for 30 minutes after administering the shots for any adverse event and allowing only one beneficiary at a time are among the guidelines issued by the Centre for the COVID-19 inoculation drive. According to the guidelines issued to states recently, the COVID Vaccine […]