10.21 am: Saudi Arabia will start vaccinating young people between 12 and 18 years with the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine, reports Reu...
10.21 am: Saudi Arabia will start vaccinating young people between 12 and 18 years with the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine, reports Reuters.
10.19 am: India has administered 17,21,268 Covid-19 vaccine doses on Sunday alone.
10.18 am: The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the government is making efforts at the highest political and diplomatic levels to procure foreign Covid-19 vaccines, reports IANS.
10.16 am: The Bhutan government has sought help from India amid a ban on export of Covid-19 vaccine, reports The Hindu.
10.13 am: Indian drug firm Bharat Biotech is yet to begin supply for a batch of Covid-19 vaccines for its May order, according to an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, reports The Hindu.
10.12 am: Australia’s Covid-19 response panel is due to hold an emergency meeting today as outbreaks of the Delta variant have been reported across the country, reports Reuters.
10.08 am: Out of the 2.9 lakh Covid-19 patients in Mumbai surveyed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation from January 1 to June 17, only 26 have contracted the virus after receiving the second vaccine dose and 10,500 after the first dose, reports The Indian Express. The survey was done to ascertain figures of infection after vaccination.
10.05 am: Health experts have cautioned authorities to ensure strong surveillance on four emerging variants of Covid-19 apart from the Delta plus strain, reports The Times of India.
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