NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech International Ltd had an adverse event during the phase 1 trial in August, when a patient was hospitalized after receiving a dose of the covid-19 Covaxin vaccine. But the matter was not made public by either the company or the regulator, the Central Medicines Standards Control …
Read More »China’s Covid-19 vaccine administered to a million people: official
BEIJING: A Covid-19 vaccine developed by a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company was administered to about one million people under the government’s emergency use scheme, the company’s president said. “In terms of emergency use, the vaccines were given to almost a million people and there has not been a single case …
Read More »Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Covaxin’ Enters Phase 3 Trials | India News
HYDERABAD: Covaxin, India’s first indigenous vaccine candidate for the Covid-19 vaccine, began phase III clinical trials on Monday in what is the country’s largest human trial of a vaccine for the dreaded coronavirus. Trials began in Hyderabad with the first doses of the candidate vaccine administered to volunteers at the …
Read More »Coronavirus Vaccine: India Rolls Eyes To Speed Up Shots | India News
NEW DELHI: India may also consider continued reviews for the Covid-19 vaccine, particularly the Oxford-AstraZeneca-developed candidate that is already under accelerated review by the UK health regulator, to further accelerate the approval of vaccines in the current pandemic situation. An ongoing review will allow the regulator to examine the data …
Read More »Insurers Unfazed by the Risks of Clinical Trials
Yet even though more than 40 experimental COVID-19 vaccines are being tested in humans, insurance companies with decades of experience evaluating clinical trial risks see nothing to unduly worry about. Executives at insurer Allianz and brokers Gallagher and Marsh, among the major players in clinical trial insurance, told Reuters that …
Read More »Second human trials of the Russian Sputnik V Covid vaccine begin in the United Arab Emirates
Amid rumor to develop a possible vaccine against the new coronavirus, human trials of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine began in the United Arab Emirates, the Kremlin said in a statement on Monday while detailing a phone call between President Vladimir Putin. and Abu Dhabi. Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed …
Read More »1 in 7 Russian covid vaccine volunteers report side effects – Russian minister
Close to the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announcing a partnership with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd for the distribution of the Russian covid-19 – Sputnik V vaccine in India, the Soviet nation’s health minister, Mikhail Murashko, in a statement the Moscow Times said that nearly 14% of patients who received …
Read More »Will a covid vaccine be ready this year? This is what has to go well
The Trump administration embarked on one of the most ambitious vaccine development efforts in history. Operation Warp Speed is likely to produce a Covid-19 inoculation in a fraction of the years it would normally take. By doing so, it could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and …
Read More »Serum Institute Stops Covid-19 Vaccine Trials In India Even As AstraZeneca Says End-of-Year Launch Still Possible
In this illustration, taken on April 10, 2020, small vials labeled with a “COVID-19 Vaccine” label and a medical syringe are seen (REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration / File photo). The Serum Institute of India halted trials of the Covid-19 vaccine in India one day after AstraZeneca halted trials …
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