COVID-19 Vaccination

Despite allowing vaccination for all above 18 years, the Covid vaccine will not be available for sale at chemists or pharmacies. As per the government sources, only Covid Vaccination Centres (CVCs) and hospitals are allowed to give the…

 Increasing efforts towards faster mass vaccination and virus surveillance is the key to ward off dangers posed by a triple-mutant coronavirus now present in the country, health experts said on Wednesday.The B1617 variant, first detected in…

Punjab school education and PWD minister Mr. Vijay Inder Singla, on Wednesday, took the first jab of COVID vaccine here at Civil Hospital Sangrur. While appealing to frontline workers and other people to get vaccinated against COVID, the…

Underlining his government’s zero tolerance policy towards drugs, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday approved a Reward Policy to encourage information and inputs leading to recovery of drugs under the NDPS Act.The…

With the Punjab Government having ordered fresh restrictions following the rapid surge in COVID-19 cases, the Punjab Police has fanned out in the field enforcing the various newly announced restrictions, including night curfew and number…

In the wake of the increasing body count at the crematoriums in Bengaluru due to the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, crematorium staff have sent out a loud and clear message that they would not be able to handle more bodies.A…

A division bench of the Gujarat High Court issued notices to the state BJP president and Navsari MP, CR Paatil, the Surat MLA, Harsh Sanghvi and state government as well as Surat Collector on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the…

With the supply of 5,000 cubic metres of oxygen to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital by the Delhi government, a crisis has been averted. The hospital confirmed to IANS on Wednesday that the supply has been received. The hospital on Tuesday had red…

Tamil Nadu, which is seeing Covid cases mounting, is now hit by a shortage of vaccines. Several people who have taken their first shots are being sent back from hospitals when they reach for their second shot after four weeks.C. Rajeev,…

As a multi-research team from the UK, the US and Canada warned in a Lancet study last week that SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air, Indian experts on Tuesday said that such understanding…