Covid Vaccines

Companies

Reliance Industries inoculates 98% staff as India Inc aces Covid vaccine race

RIL claims it has administered over 1 million doses to its workforce and their families free of cost and is operating 171 vaccination centers across the countryRIL had more than 236,300 employees as of March 31

2 min read27 Jul 2021
News

GST Council meet: Covid vaccines remain in 5% slab, tax on Remdesivir slashed. Check what got cheaper

In its meeting today, the council rationalised tax rates Covid-related items based on recommendations from a Group of Ministers formed in its previous meetingThe reductions and exemptions in GST rates will remain in effect till August 31, 2021

2 min read12 Jun 2021
Markets

Wall Street slumps on Fed remarks, bond scare

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell repeated his pledge to keep credit flowing until Americans are back to work

3 min read5 Mar 2021
Markets

Stock markets: Vaccines, stimulus set tone for 2021 as year ends on bullish note

Roll-outs of vaccines to combat the virus and trillions of dollars' worth of fiscal support are expected to boost investment and spending in 2021

3 min read31 Dec 2020
Opinion

Free jabs, please

Given the low-income levels of a significant part of our population, some may avoid getting a shot

1 min read26 Oct 2020
Science

US trial of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine may resume this week - Report

AstraZeneca's large, late-stage U.S. trial has been on hold since Sept. 6, after a participant in the company's UK trial fell ill

3 min read21 Oct 2020
Science

COVID-19 vaccine: HMD sends 56 million syringes Covax facility

HMD earlier said it intends to scale production of auto-disable syringes to an annual capacity of 1 billion in 2021The central government is hoping that 400 to 500 million doses of the vaccine will be available in India by the the middle of next year

1 min read14 Oct 2020
Science

Covid-19 again? Reinfection cases raise concerns over immunity after vaccination

Scientists said that while known incidences of reinfection appear rare - and the Nevada man has now recovered - cases like his were worrying

1 min read13 Oct 2020
News

Rich nations representing 13% of population bought off 52% of covid vaccines - Report

Big pharma is racing to produce an effective jab to counter a virus that has now killed more than 935,000 people around the world and infected almost 30 million.

3 min read18 Sep 2020