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Health Ministry writes to Maharashtra, Punjab, Delhi, calls for correctiv
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
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".
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Centre asks states, UTs to prepare COVID-19 vaccination at workplace from
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): In order to increase the access of vaccines to people above 45 years of age, COVID-19 vaccination sessions will be organised at public and private workplaces having about 100 eligible and willing beneficiaries by tagging these workplaces with an existing vac
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Punjab govt sets target of 2 lakh daily doses of COVID-19 vaccination
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
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.
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India becomes fastest COVID-19 vaccinating country in world, over 8.70 cr
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): In a significant development, India has surpassed the United States to become the fastest vaccinating country in the world with an average daily rate of 30,93,861 vaccine doses, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday.
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Omar Abdullah gets first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 7 (ANI): National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah on Wednesday took the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Srinagar.
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Sharad Pawar receives second dose of COVID-19 vaccination
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday took the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Biden says US administered 150 million Covid vaccine doses so far
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 7, (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Tuesday visited a Covid-19 vaccination centre just before his remarks announcing that every adult in America will be eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine by mid-April.
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Biden says every adult in US eligible for Covid-19 vaccination from April
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 7, (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that every adult in the US will be eligible to be vaccinated for COVId-19 by April 19, which is two weeks earlier than May 1 deadline that Biden had previously targeted.
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Aim is to administer COVID-19 vaccine to those who need it, not to those w
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): Amid demands of opening COVID-19 vaccination of all age groups, the union health ministry on Tuesday stated that the aim of the vaccination drive is to administer the vaccine to those who need it and not to those who want it.
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BBMP instructs zonal officers to double COVID-19 vaccination rate in Benga
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 6 (ANI): Zonal health officers in Bengaluru have been instructed to double the COVID-19 vaccination rate in the city amid the second wave of the pandemic in the country, informed Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta on
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Long queues in Pakistan to buy Sputnik V as commercial sales begin
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], April 6 (ANI): Thousands of Pakistanis rushed to COVID-19 vaccination sites to get inoculated in the first round of commercial sales of Sputnik V vaccines.
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Allow COVID-19 vaccination for all above 25 years of age: Maha CM urges PM
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
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.
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