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India on Friday added the most Covid-19 cases of any other country, exceeded, on average, the number of new infections in the United States, and was poised to overtake Brazil over the weekend to become the country with the worst outbreak in the world. amid a furious second national wave …

NEW DELHI: India’s vaccine diplomacy may be going through a bad time. A recent letter from the Serum Institute (SII) to at least three countries saying it would not be able to supply the vaccines these nations already paid for in the coming months has raised concerns, among many others, …

Brazil appears to have jumped the gun by officially announcing the dispatch of a plane to transport two million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from India, and New Delhi made it clear on Thursday that decisions on supplies to foreign countries will take longer. A statement issued by Brazil’s Foreign …

It’s December 31, the end of the year, and India may be just a day away from approving a vaccine. The Subject Matter Experts Committee (SEC) of the Central Medicines Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) on Wednesday reviewed data submitted by the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech as requested …

In another unfounded accusation against coronavirus vaccines, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Thursday that the Pfizer-BioNTech injection could turn people into crocodiles or cause women to grow beards, AFP reported. “If you turn into a crocodile, it’s your problem,” Bolsonaro said, referring to Pfizer’s disclaimer that the company was not …

In a bizarre comment about COVID-19 vaccines, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that the vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech could turn people into ‘crocodiles’ or ‘bearded ladies’. Earlier, when Brazil launched its mass inoculation campaign, Bolsonaro said that it will not be vaccinated. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic around …

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has launched an attack on vaccines against the coronavirus, even suggesting that the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech could turn people into crocodiles or bearded women. The far-right leader has been skeptical of the coronavirus since it first appeared late last year, calling it “a bit of …

NEW DELHI: India on Friday became the second country in the world after the United States to register a confirmed crore (10 million) COVID-19 cases even as the pandemic continued to recede in the country. In India, it took 29 days for cases to rise from nine million to 10 …

NEW DELHI: Serum Institute of India (SII) may gain emergency use approval for Covishield in India shortly after UK drug regulator MHRA gives the go-ahead to the vaccine, which officials here hope will be before Christmas. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is evaluating data including which dosage …

NEW DELHI: As daily cases of Covid-19 in the country continue to fall after peaking nearly three months ago, India is among the two nations hardest hit by the pandemic that have yet to be hit by a second wave of infections. Eight of these countries have seen or are …