Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Education Department has released a list of teaching and non-teaching staff, who have not taken COVID vaccine on religious grounds in the State. A total of 1,707 teaching and non-teaching staff had not taken the vaccine, General Education Minister V. Sivankutty said on Saturday after a list was released by the Education Department….
Union Health Ministry issues a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the variant New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has said while there is no evidence to suggest that existing vaccines do not work on the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, some of the mutations reported may decrease the efficacy of the jabs. The Ministry…
Washington: Dr. Vivek Murthy, the Indian-origin US Surgeon General, has urged parents world over to go for the Covid paediatric vaccine after his five-year-old son took the shot. “Like so many parents, I was thrilled and relieved when my 5-year-old son got his #COVID19 vaccine last week. He was a little nervous when the time…
Washington: The number of the worldwide administered doses of vaccines against the Coronavirus has surpassed 8 billion, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said. The total number of administered doses currently stands at 8,036,182,904. The World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 263.41 million people have been…
Vaccine hesitancy among educated a matter of grave concern No strain of new Omicron detected in Mysuru; high alert at borders Mysore/Mysuru: Faced with the looming threat posed by the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the Department of Health and Family Welfare has been instructed to substantially increase the second dose coverage by the end of…
Thiruvananthapuram: As Omicron causes panic across the world, about 5,000 teachers in Kerala are hesitant to take the Covid-19 vaccination on religious grounds. Kerala has over 1.60 lakh teachers and 20,000 non-teaching staff, sources said. State General Education Minister V. Sivankutty has termed it as a matter of concern. He said non-vaccination of teachers means…
Karnataka to strictly follow ‘Test-Track Treat-Vaccinate’ principle New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met top officials this morning via video-conferencing to review the COVID-19 and vaccination situation in the country. Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, P.K. Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr. V.K. Paul, the chief of the country’s…
New Delhi: In yet another fantastic initiative by the Central Government to ease the vaccination programme in India, it launched a new feature on its CoWIN portal where one can check their vaccination status anytime, anywhere. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on Twitter last evening that they have activated the service…
To promote safe business practices Mysore/Mysuru: After the killer second wave of the pandemic, many hotels and business establishments in the city have rolled out a new feature to show the fully vaccinated status of staff. This is to assure customers that they are safe as all staff manning the units were fully vaccinated and…
Bengaluru: CSIR-NAL’s Octacopter has successfully delivered 50 vials of Covid-19 vaccines in remote areas of Karnataka. In a statement issued by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) said it has teamed up with Karnataka Government for aerial delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in remote areas. “The Octacopter has successfully delivered…
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