Amid Covid surge, the reality: Fewer vaccination centres

Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech have also stopped producing the Covishield and Covaxin vaccines respectively. IMAGE: A healthcare worker collects a swab sample for Covid-19 test,......

Indians Not Taking Booster Covid Vaccine

Less than 30,000 booster doses daily in December.India's vaccine coverage has been flat in the last two months. Photograph: ANI Photo   Nearly 600,000 daily fresh cases of COVID-19 are being......

10 mn unused Covid vaccine doses lying with private hospitals

With around 2 million Covid vaccine doses likely to get wasted in December, leading hospital chains have now started to give it gratis to citizens. Sohini Das and Ruchika Chitravanshi report.......

Pandemic pushes up demand for CT scanners; firms gear up to meet surge

Siemens Healthineers, one of the largest manufacturers of made-in-India CT scanners, has sold 80-100 such machines in the last 45 days. The medical technology firm typically sells 250 machines in a......