The IMA also requested the Centre to provide COVID-19 vaccination free of cost to healthcare workers and people of the nation. The Union Health Ministry had developed Co-WIN to monitor real-time COVID-19 vaccine delivery

The government, in this phase, will vaccinate people over 60 and individuals over 45 with comorbidities to rein in the rising number of more infectious virus strains leading to a spurt in COVID-19 cases in some states

While professionals are confident of career progress, there's a decrease in India's overall confidence, as the composite score dropped from +58 in December 2020 to +54 in January 2021

India can swiftly take up the COVID-19 vaccine doses at a shorter time and at a reasonable cost if private firms enter to vaccination process, Azim Premji said

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, while addressing the UN Security Council meeting on COVID-19 on Wednesday, announced a gift of 200,000 COVID-19 doses for the UN peacekeepers

Barclays said the government appears set to launch its second phase of vaccinations for the elderly and people with co-morbidities in March, which should see absolute vaccine distribution improve.

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Having reported the highest number of coronavirus infections after the United States, and with the world's biggest vaccine-making capacity, India says it has been the fastest to reach many inoculation milestones

ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava further added that those taking aspirin and blood thinners can also be given these vaccines. \"There is no contraindication,\" he said

In India, we are fortunate that supply of vaccines is not a rate-limiting step, but to meet the timelines set by the government, we will have to immunise somewhere between 4 and 5 times more people each day than we are doing today, says Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College in Vellore

Just the two shots have been used in what India calls the world's biggest immunisation programme to cover 300 million people by August, starting with healthcare and other workers to reach the elderly and those with existing conditions by March

Little attention to direct income support, health and education deprivations, and revival of small businesses will keep the demand and production of goods and services depressed in FY22

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There were expectations that the government would clarify on the residency status of these individuals in the 2021-22 Budget, which was presented on February 1

ICMR conducted the third round of the national sero-survey from December 7, 2020, to January 8, 2021. The results of this survey have been released now

Union Budget 2021 highights: A new centrally sponsored scheme, PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, will be launched with an outlay of about Rs 64,180 crore over six years