The CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, said she was optimistic the industry will be able to make a COVID-19 immunization widely available next year. “I share the optimism that we will have solutions next year. The challenge here is to get to the required scale,” GSK Executive …
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Coronavirus Vaccine: Serum Institute said it will produce an additional 100 million doses of COVID vaccine Bangalore: Serum Institute of India will produce up to 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for the poorest countries, including India, next year as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the GAVI vaccine …
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Swab samples are taken for Covid-19 testing in New Delhi. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna) India Coronavirus Live News Updates: In the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, India detected 70,589 new cases of the new coronavirus, bringing its count to more than 61 lakh. Of the 61,45,292 cases …
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As the world races to develop a possible vaccine against the coronavirus (Covid-19), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday that the first vaccine in India will likely be available in early 2021. The health ministry said research to develop a Covid-19 vaccine is “being done quickly.” …
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The United States has the highest death toll with more than 200,000 deaths, followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and Great Britain. Data from the Ministry of Health so far put the death toll in India at 94,503, with 59.92 lakh cases. The case count in India is the second highest …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 27, 2020 9:21:31 pm Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan during ‘Sunday Samvaad’, an interaction with his followers on social media. Citing the second ICMR sero-survey, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Sunday said that India was still far from achieving herd …
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An employee answers questions from the public near samples of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by CNBG, a subsidiary of Sinopharm, during a trade fair in Beijing on September 6, 2020 (AP Photo / Ng Han Guan). The world still lacks a proven coronavirus vaccine, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese officials …
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One day after asking if the government will have ₹80,000 crore available to purchase and distribute the vaccine, Adar Poonawalla, executive director of the Serum Institute of India, took to Twitter today to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Covid-19 vaccines. We share …
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The global death toll from Covid-19 could double to 2 million before a successful coronavirus vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, the World Health Organization said. “Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) … not only imaginable, but sadly …
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By: Desk Explained | Pune | Updated: September 26, 2020 9:59:50 am A worker stands near the word Safety while monitoring the production of the SARS CoV-2 vaccine for COVID-19 at a SinoVac factory in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 (AP Photo / Ng Han Guan). Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker: …
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