Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 16 (ANI): Considering the safety of citizens in the view of COVID-19, the Karnataka government has decided to shift all coronavirus vaccination centres from hospitals and Primary Health Centre (PHCs) to schools, colleges, and other safer locations.
New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI): As many as 84,599 beneficiaries of 18-44 age group received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on the first day of the third phase of the nationwide vaccination drive on Saturday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed.
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): The government on Thursday informed that the cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 15-crore mark.
Washington [US], April 25 (ANI): The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended pregnant women who are confused regarding coronavirus vaccination to get the shots.
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 20 (ANI): With COVID-19 cases on the rise, authorities of a village in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur have come up with an interesting way to encourage residents to get vaccinated - giving them tomatoes for each administered dose.
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 situation in India continued to be of concern with the country yet again witnessing the highest single-day surge of cases. The country saw 2.73 lakh new cases and 1,619 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has written to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan urging him to release more COVID-19 vaccines for Maharashtra.
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Health Ministry has written to Maharashtra, Punjab and Delhi governments about the COVID-19 vaccinations done by them and urged them to take "necessary corrective actions immediately for improving the performance of vaccination drive".
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], April 7 (ANI): Amid the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday directed the state health department to ramp up the vaccination drive to meet the target of two lakh doses per day.
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): Olympic-bound Indian archers Atanu Das, Deepika Kumar and Tarundeep Rai on Wednesday received their final shot of the coronavirus vaccine at the Army Sports Institute in Pune.
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a letter on Monday said that on-site registration for health care workers and front line workers will now only be done at government coronavirus vaccination centres and these workers will need to produce origin
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 5 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and urged him to allow COVID-19 vaccination for all above 25 years of age.