COVID Vaccine

Moderna's low dose COVID-19 vaccine works in babies and preschoolers under the age of 6,  the company announced on Wednesday.

The government will soon allow booster dose of Covid vaccine for all those above 18 years in view of a surge in infections in parts of the world, sources said.

The Union Health Ministry on Monday issued comprehensive guidelines for COVID-19 vaccination of children between 15-18 years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a address to the nation on Saturday evening announced vaccination for children aged 15-18.

Government of India has ordered 1 crore doses of Zydus Cadila’s three-dose Covid Vaccine for Kids above 12.

Cipla on Tuesday received the approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to import Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine for restricted emergency use in India.

According to Bharat Biotech in a reply to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), "newborn calf serum is used in the revival process of Vero cells, which is further used for the production of coronavirus during the…

Despite passing the effectiveness test with an outstanding score of 90.4 percent, Novavax's unclear route to approval in the United States may see India emerge as a significant destination for the injections, with the Serum Institute of…

On April 12th 2021, the Subject Expert Committee (SEC), a top advisory committee linked to the Drug Controller General of India, authorized Sputnik V, a COVID-19 vaccine created by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute, for emergency use.

Pfizer and Moderna, two major US pharmaceutical companies, have confirmed that they would not supply vaccines directly to Delhi. Punjab too suffered the same fate.