VACCINE CONFIDENCE

From who gets it, side effects to what it will cost, all your questions on India's Covid vaccination drive answered

For now, health experts and industry specialists are confident the initial phase will be relatively well managed. The real test will come a...

Vaxman Rekha: Some wary of going to the other side

While some would want to get their elders given the protective jab as soon as possible to minimise their risk of infection, others want to ...

Challenging outlook for airlines despite vaccine progress: IATA

While the industry saw some modest improvement in bookings after the vaccine announcement news in the fourth quarter of 2020, the trend was...

World waiting for India's vaccines, watching how it runs world's biggest vaccination drive: PM Modi

"Being the pharmacy of the world, India has supplied important medicines to all those in need in the world in the past and is also doing so...

Vaccine rollout: Education ministry roped in to build confidence in safety of vaccines

The health ministry has requested that the huge network of field networks including educational institutes to collaborate with it to ensure...

Covid-19: 'Let PM take first vaccine shot, it will boost confidence of countrymen', says Tej Pratap Yadav

'Let PM Narendra Modi take the Covid-19 vaccine first, we'll take it after him. If PM takes the vaccine first, it will boost the confidence...

Scientists debate the right vaccination technique

Since even the first shot appears to provide some protection against COVID-19, some experts believe that the shortest route to containing t...

Government frames strategy to build public confidence in vaccines

The government would identify traditionally-known vaccine hesitant and resistant areas, ethnic groups and communities based on prior experi...

Kamala Harris gets Moderna COVID-19 shot live on television in bid to boost US vaccine confidence

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Tuesday received her first dose of the Moderna COVID -19 vaccine before live television cameras as...

BioNTech confident COVID-19 vaccine effective against new UK mutation

Countries across the globe shut their borders to Britain on Monday due to fears about a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, causing t...

Pfizer CEO confident of getting U.S. advisory panel nod for COVID-19 vaccine

Bourla, speaking on a call with reporters on Tuesday, also reiterated confidence in Pfizer's ability to deliver its mRNA vaccine, developed...

3 American ex-presidents would get vaccine publicly to boost confidence

Health care workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line, according to the influential Advisory Committee on Immun...

Americans should have confidence in the vaccine: Alex Azar U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary

Britain became the first country in the world to authorize a rigorously tested COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday and U.S. Health and Human Service...

Nitin Gadkari confident India will get COVID-19 vaccine as early as possible

"I am confident that we will get a vaccine as early as possible and 100 per cent we will win this war against COVID-19 and also win economi...

Stocks rise as vaccines, Biden presidency lift global confidence

The main drivers of that exuberance were increasing confidence a COVID-19 vaccine would be ready soon and the formal start of U.S. presiden...

Stocks rise as Biden transition, vaccine progress lift confidence

The upbeat backdrop helped MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan advance 0.15%. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was 1.1% stron...

Kuwaiti logistic firm Agility confident business will rebound in 2021

The company saw its profit halve in the first nine months of the year to 31.5 million dinar ($103 million), while revenue was flat at 1.17 ...