Covid Vaccines

Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday claimed that his Covid vaccine shot almost sent him to the hospital.

US President Joe Biden received a dose of the updated Covid-19 vaccine, as well as the annual flu vaccine, his doctor said Saturday.

Australia announced Thursday an inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, including its use of fortress-like travel restrictions and a sluggish initial vaccine rollout.

The EG.5.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 can escape neutralising antibodies better than other currently circulating strains, giving it an advantage in infecting vaccinated or previously infected people, according to a study published in

The UK health authorities began rolling out their winter vaccine schedule for the most medically vulnerable on Monday, brought forward from a planned early October rollout amid concerns around the new COVID variant BA.2.86.

Moderna said Wednesday its updated fall Covid booster, which is pending approval from the Food and Drug Administration, performed well against the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant.

The research, published recently in the journal PLOS One, determined the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or heart attack.

A UN anti-racism committee on Thursday urged rich countries -- particularly Britain, Germany, Switzerland and the United States -- to waive coronavirus vaccine patents and said they violated a guarantee against racial discrimination.

The study on factors related to the post-discharge mortality among hospitalized COVID patients study by ICMR revealed that vaccination before an infection provided 60% protection against post-discharge deaths.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's colleague who is in charge of the party's social media and digital platforms came to his defence today after Home Minister Amit Shah attacked the MP over COVID-19 vaccination.

Efforts to vaccinate children worldwide against deadly diseases such as measles and diptheria began to recover in 2022 after a historic backslide caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new figures from the WHO and the UNICEF.

Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd on Tuesday said its mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccine against the Omicron variant, GEMCOVAC-OM, has received emergency use authorisation from the Drugs Controller General of India.

The government on Monday shared a detailed response to reports of an alleged data breach of the CoWIN database, following reports that an automated bot on Telegram was surfacing personal details of people who had registered with the CoWIN platform to receive COVID vaccinations during the pandemic.

India has recorded 92 fresh coronavirus infections while the active cases have decreased to 2,350, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday.

Investigations have been launched at various levels in the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh following the discovery of supposed abuse of the central government's CoWIN portal, a centralised digital platform for COVID-19 vaccine registration.

Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday claimed that his Covid vaccine shot almost sent him to the hospital.

US President Joe Biden received a dose of the updated Covid-19 vaccine, as well as the annual flu vaccine, his doctor said Saturday.

Australia announced Thursday an inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, including its use of fortress-like travel restrictions and a sluggish initial vaccine rollout.

The EG.5.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 can escape neutralising antibodies better than other currently circulating strains, giving it an advantage in infecting vaccinated or previously infected people, according to a study published in

The UK health authorities began rolling out their winter vaccine schedule for the most medically vulnerable on Monday, brought forward from a planned early October rollout amid concerns around the new COVID variant BA.2.86.

Moderna said Wednesday its updated fall Covid booster, which is pending approval from the Food and Drug Administration, performed well against the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant.

The research, published recently in the journal PLOS One, determined the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or heart attack.

A UN anti-racism committee on Thursday urged rich countries -- particularly Britain, Germany, Switzerland and the United States -- to waive coronavirus vaccine patents and said they violated a guarantee against racial discrimination.

The study on factors related to the post-discharge mortality among hospitalized COVID patients study by ICMR revealed that vaccination before an infection provided 60% protection against post-discharge deaths.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's colleague who is in charge of the party's social media and digital platforms came to his defence today after Home Minister Amit Shah attacked the MP over COVID-19 vaccination.

Efforts to vaccinate children worldwide against deadly diseases such as measles and diptheria began to recover in 2022 after a historic backslide caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new figures from the WHO and the UNICEF.

Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd on Tuesday said its mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccine against the Omicron variant, GEMCOVAC-OM, has received emergency use authorisation from the Drugs Controller General of India.

The government on Monday shared a detailed response to reports of an alleged data breach of the CoWIN database, following reports that an automated bot on Telegram was surfacing personal details of people who had registered with the CoWIN platform to receive COVID vaccinations during the pandemic.

India has recorded 92 fresh coronavirus infections while the active cases have decreased to 2,350, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday.

Investigations have been launched at various levels in the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh following the discovery of supposed abuse of the central government's CoWIN portal, a centralised digital platform for COVID-19 vaccine registration.