The search for a safe and effective vaccine against the new coronavirus is underway. Frontline workers will be the first to get vaccinated in India when a vaccine becomes available, according to a senior official. “Reducing mortality and protecting frontline workers must be the first priority,” said Dr. Vinod Paul, …
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Written by Abhishek De, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 21, 2020 2:10:25 pm A health worker takes a swab sample for Covid-19 testing in New Delhi (Express photo by Praveen Khanna) We can have a Covid-19 vaccine for this year itself, with some eight candidates …
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India can receive a COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021, revealed Dr. Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Serum Institute of India. “India can receive COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021 as long as regulators notify processes quickly as various manufacturers are working on it,” Dr Jadhav said at the India Vaccine …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a review meeting on Thursday to assess the progress of research and the vaccine development ecosystem to combat the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The meeting was attended by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, NITI Aayog (Health) Fellow, Senior Scientific Advisor, senior scientists and other officials. PM …
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Written by Abhishek De, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 14, 2020 9:30:43 pm Health workers in a Covid-19 ward in New Delhi The quest to find a quick and effective treatment for Covid-19 suffered two setbacks in a 24-hour span after two major US drug …
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Written by Kaunain Sheriff M | New Delhi | Updated: October 12, 2020 7:31:52 am Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan during ‘Sunday Samvaad’, an interaction with his followers on social media. ESTABLISHING the distribution sequence of the Covid vaccines expected to be available in India, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh …
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Given that most leading-edge candidate vaccines are likely to require ‘additional cold’ storage, the private sector could also be engaged in the effective delivery of a preventative when available, suggest several experts and industry insiders. Some pioneering vaccines are in advanced stages of testing and could hit the market early …
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An experimental Chinese coronavirus vaccine being developed by the Institute of Medical Biology of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was shown to be safe in an early-stage clinical trial, the researchers said. In a phase 1 trial of 191 healthy participants aged 18 to 59 years, vaccination with the …
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By: Desk Explained | Pune | Updated: October 6, 2020 9:21:50 am Travelers wearing masks wait at a traffic intersection in Kochi, Kerala (AP) Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker: India is working to vaccinate 20 to 25 million million of its population, about one sixth of its total population, against Covid19 disease …
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A ‘safe and effective’ vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease could be ready by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. “We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we can have a vaccine. There is hope,” …
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