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Tokyo performance a huge confidence booster for us, says hockey midfielder
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): The Indian women's hockey team made history when they defeated the three-time Olympic gold medallists Australia 1-0 in the quarter-final and played in their first-ever Olympic semi-final against Argentina in the Tokyo Olympics.
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Ayush Ministry kickstarts campaign to distribute prophylactic medicines
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): Ministry of Ayush on Thursday launched a campaign here to distribute Ayush prophylactic medicines and written guidelines on diet and lifestyle to 75 lakh people across the country, with a special focus on the geriatric (people of 60 years and above age)
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Focus should be on vaccinating everybody, booster doses can wait: AIIMS ch
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): India should now focus on vaccinating as many people as possible to curb the spread of Covid and the idea of booster doses can wait, for now, said Randeep Guleria, Chief, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
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Low-calorie, immunity-booster dishes to binge on this Raksha Bandhan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 20 (ANI): Raksha Bandhan is just around the corner and no festival can be complete without bonding over delicious food, especially gorging on traditional sweets.
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US to roll out COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in September, say health off
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 19 (ANI): Booster shots of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are set to become available for all adults in America beginning next month, the country's top health officials announced on Wednesday.
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No data shows need for booster vaccines presently: Dr Gagandeep Kang
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 17 (ANI): Speaking about when a booster dose should be administered, Dr Gagandeep Kang, professor at Christian Medical College Vellore on Tuesday, said some countries that have used inactivated, vectored vaccines or mRNA vaccines have begun to offer a booster dose t
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Pfizer and BioNTech announce submission of Initial data to US FDA to suppo
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], August 17 (ANI): Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they have submitted Phase 1 data to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support the evaluation of a third, or booster dose of the companies' COVID-19 vaccine for future licensure.
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US' CDC endorses COVID-19 booster jabs for immunocompromised people
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): US' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed the use of an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine for people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems after an initial two-dose vaccine series.
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COVID vaccine booster dose may benefit organ transplant patients: Study
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): Organ transplant recipients may get benefit from a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as a booster shot that will push the response rate, according to a study conducted by Canadian scientists.
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RDIF proposes Pfizer conduct joint trials with Sputnik Light as booster sh
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia] August 11 (ANI): The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has proposed that US drugmaker Pfizer start joint trials with Sputnik Light as a booster COVID-19 vaccine shot, the RDIF said on Wednesday.
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Turkey confirms 25,100 daily COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], August 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey on Saturday registered 25,100 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 5,895,841, according to its Health Ministry.
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Trial results of Sputnik V, AstraZeneca booster dose expected this week
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): After Dr Reddy's Laboratories issued a statement on Monday regarding the availability of 'Made in India' Sputnik V COVID-19 doses from September /October, the Sputnik V team confirmed it was scaling up its vaccine production capacity.
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