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Second Covid booster dose not required: Govt sources
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"No discussion has been started even in the Immunisation panel National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) regarding the second booster," said a separate official source to ANI.
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No link between heart dysfunction and COVID booster vaccines in India: Exp
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 28 (ANI): Clearing the air around the effects of a booster dose of the vaccines, the health experts have said that there is no definite link between heart dysfunction and the precaution doses of the COVID shots.
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Mansukh Mandaviya launches 'Covid Vaccination Amrit Mahotsav'
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launched 'Covid Vaccination Amrit Mahotsav' at Covid Vaccination Camp in Nirman Bhawan here on Friday and appealed to the masses to get the free dose so as to ensure protection against COVID-19.
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Free Covid booster dose for all adults from today
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): With an aim to increase the uptake of the precautionary dose of COVID vaccine among the eligible adult population, 75 days - 'COVID Vaccination Amrit Mahotsava' will commence on Friday, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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Gap between second COVID jab and booster dose reduced from 9 to 6 months
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): In view of the evolving scientific evidence and global practices, the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday revised the duration between the second COVID vaccine dose and precautionary dose from the existing 9 months to 6 months.
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WHO approves Biological E Limited as additional manufacturing site for Joh
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): US Embassy in India congratulated Biological E. Limited, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical and vaccines company for getting approval from WHO as an additional manufacturing site for the Janssen/Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
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DCGI approves Corbevax as first heterologous COVID-19 booster shot for adu
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 4 (ANI): Biological E. Limited, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical and vaccines company, on Saturday, announced that its Corbevax COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) as a heterologous COVID-19 booster dose for
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CPI MP urges Centre to provide COVID-19 booster dose free of cost
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP from Kerala, Binoy Viswam has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to reconsider the decision to provide booster doses to those aged above 18 years at a cost of around 375 rupees.
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Private hospitals start administering precaution dose of COVID vaccine to
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Private vaccination centres on Sunday began the administration of the precautionary "third" dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, also known as the booster dose, for the 18-plus population.
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'There may be need for yet again another boost': Fauci on fourth COVID boo
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 10 (ANI): White House Chief Medical advisor Antony Fauci hinted that there may be the need for the fourth-dose boost in the United States to battle with COVID-19 variant Omicron, adding that the booster could be based on age, as well as underlying conditions of the
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Amid Omicron threat, CRPF reactivates its COVID care facility; precautiona
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): Amid the rise in cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Wednesday has reactivated their COVID care centre in Bawana in Delhi.
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