Kerala Vaccination Drive

Over eight months after the Kerala government launched a vaccination drive for stray and pet canines in the wake of a spate of deaths due to dog bites, the stray dog menace has again reared its ugly head.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy today wrote to his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan to urge the Government of India to take responsibility for the nation's COVID-19 vaccination drive.

The Kerala government has included those who are going abroad for studies and employment purpose, in the prioritised group under the 18-45 years age category for the COVID-19 vaccination.

Kerala's Covid-19 vaccination drive will go ahead "uninterrupted", tweeted Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday, adding that the state will purchase 1 crore doses of Covishield and Covaxin from the open market.

With COVID-19 cases witnessing an increase in Kerala and the Test Positivity Rate rising soon after the assembly elections in the state, the efforts of the state's army of healthcare workers to encourage vaccination among those above 45 a

Amid an intensive and accelerating inoculation drive, India is witnessing a worrying spike in the rate of Covid-19 infection across the country with the number hitting 22,854 in the past 24 hours - a two-month high and 27% higher than the previous day's figure of 17,921. The last time such a peak was reached was on December 26 with 22,273. Yesterda...

Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Tuesday received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the government medical college hospital here as the second phase of the vaccination drive progressed in the State.

Kerala will not implement the centre's controversial citizenship law, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday, reiterating an earlier stand after a new announcement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the act will be enforced once the coronavirus vaccination drive ends.

Nearly a year after India reported its first case of coronavirus from Kerala, the "start of the end of the pandemic", as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan described it on Friday, began this morning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the nationwide rollout. The government has targeted the vaccination of 1 crore healthcare workers and 2 crore fr...

A nurse was attacked during a vaccination drive in Kerala's Malappuram. Shyamala B's hand was twisted and others on duty were roughed up by a group of men, three of whom have now been arrested. The police has said the attackers, armed with knives, had struck as the vaccination drive against measles and rubella was being conducted at a school in Eda...

Days after the death of an 11-year-old boy of Diphtheria in Kerala's northern town of Malappuram, the state has swung into action.

Over eight months after the Kerala government launched a vaccination drive for stray and pet canines in the wake of a spate of deaths due to dog bites, the stray dog menace has again reared its ugly head.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy today wrote to his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan to urge the Government of India to take responsibility for the nation's COVID-19 vaccination drive.

The Kerala government has included those who are going abroad for studies and employment purpose, in the prioritised group under the 18-45 years age category for the COVID-19 vaccination.

Kerala's Covid-19 vaccination drive will go ahead "uninterrupted", tweeted Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday, adding that the state will purchase 1 crore doses of Covishield and Covaxin from the open market.

With COVID-19 cases witnessing an increase in Kerala and the Test Positivity Rate rising soon after the assembly elections in the state, the efforts of the state's army of healthcare workers to encourage vaccination among those above 45 a

Amid an intensive and accelerating inoculation drive, India is witnessing a worrying spike in the rate of Covid-19 infection across the country with the number hitting 22,854 in the past 24 hours - a two-month high and 27% higher than the previous day's figure of 17,921. The last time such a peak was reached was on December 26 with 22,273. Yesterda...

Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Tuesday received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the government medical college hospital here as the second phase of the vaccination drive progressed in the State.

Kerala will not implement the centre's controversial citizenship law, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday, reiterating an earlier stand after a new announcement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the act will be enforced once the coronavirus vaccination drive ends.

Nearly a year after India reported its first case of coronavirus from Kerala, the "start of the end of the pandemic", as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan described it on Friday, began this morning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the nationwide rollout. The government has targeted the vaccination of 1 crore healthcare workers and 2 crore fr...

A nurse was attacked during a vaccination drive in Kerala's Malappuram. Shyamala B's hand was twisted and others on duty were roughed up by a group of men, three of whom have now been arrested. The police has said the attackers, armed with knives, had struck as the vaccination drive against measles and rubella was being conducted at a school in Eda...

Days after the death of an 11-year-old boy of Diphtheria in Kerala's northern town of Malappuram, the state has swung into action.