COVID-19 herd immunity? It’s not going to happen, so what next?

The only sustainable solution is to learn to live with the virus.  

COVID-19: Can India vaccinate all adults in 4 months?

COVID-19 vaccine: 74% scheduled health workers didn't get second shot

Less than half the scheduled workers have received the first shot

CSIR scientists working on new vaccine for malaria

The aim is to make a vaccine that can be conditionally attenuated when given to humans

Why vaccine doses differ for babies, kids, teens and adults: An immunologist explains

As time passes, your immune system matures through different stages, much the way you advanced from crawling to standing, walking and running

Long COVID stigma may encourage people to hide the condition

Long COVID is a relatively new medical condition and has been subject to lots of misinformation and minimisation of its legitimacy as a physical …

Viva Cuba for its vaccine revolution

Punching way above its weight, the tiny nation has developed five vaccines, and offers hope of vaccine equity across the world    

What are India’s options for a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine

Hyderabad-based Biological E’s Corbevax and SII’s Covovax, both of which are protein-based vaccines, are India’s best bet for a …

Rich countries must share their vaccines with poor ones quickly: WHO panel

Vaccine distribution to low-income countries falls short of 1 billion target, former panel leaders, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark, said

Back to school? May have unimaginable, uncontrollable consequences on health

Instead of reopening schools, educationists should research how to communicate efficiently in online classes   

Modi’s COVID-19 vaccine turnaround: An answer for Supreme Court queries just in time

The bench of judges Chandrachud, Rao and Bhat have already asked the Union government to review the vaccination policy and file an affidavit by …

Gujarat's pastoral communities struggling for awareness, infrastructure to combat second COVID-19 wave

The nomadic pastoral communities cannot afford to remain in their houses even during a pandemic 

South African case study sheds light on how vaccine manufacturing can be developed

Additional costs made it harder for local companies to break even and recover working capital

Interested in vaccine rollouts across Africa? Here’s a map to guide you

A map that will be updated daily, showing how many people have been vaccinated across the continent

Lateral Thoughts: We are dealing with a genius virus

The nuts and bolts of virus variants and why SARS-CoV-2 is different from other vaccine preventable viral diseases  

90% efficacy for Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is striking. But we need to wait for the full data

Important questions remain: It’s unclear how long protection will last and if the vaccine protects against severe disease

Telangana COVID-19 vaccine recipient dies; govt says no link to immunisation

All three deaths following immunisation in India attributed to heart attack with no disease history

WHO nod to first emergency use vaccine can tackle rising vaccine-derived poliovirus cases

Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus occurs if a population is poorly vaccinated and there are enough susceptible children for excreted …

India in talks with Russia on ‘unverified’ COVID-19 vaccine

Indian serostudies do not talk about neutralising antibodies, says ICMR DG  

WHO report flags spike in cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus

At least 149 immunodeficiency vaccine-derived poliovirus cases were reported to WHO between 1961 and 2019

Govt neither denies nor accepts adverse event in Serum Institute COVID-19 vaccine trial

Health secretary claims all procedures followed but refuses to divulge details

Africa eradicates polio, but vaccine-driven outbreaks rise

In Asia, India too was declared polio-free in 2014, but cVDPV was reported 50 times in the country in the past six years

Shortage of cholera vaccines forces WHO to shift to single-dose strategy

More people can be immunised with the temporary single dose

India administered more COVID-19 vaccine doses than the US

However, only 4% of the Indian population has got both doses so far

Exempt COVID-19 vaccines from GST: Naveen

Odisha CM also seeks for states share of cess, surcharges that Centre collects