The Union government is working in at least five different ways, ranging from free vaccines to guaranteed supply, in which it can help its immediate neighbors as well as countries in West Asia, Africa and even Latin America, familiar officials said. with the plan on condition of anonymity. The idea …
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On Friday, as reported by the Hindustan Times on the same day, India crossed the US seven-day high average in terms of daily coronavirus cases, according to worldometers.info and the New York Times database. The United States saw its seven-day high average in mid-July; India saw him in late August. …
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Door-to-door control by health officials in Odisha (Express photo) With Assam joining the league, the top ten states with the highest case burden now have more than a lakh of people infected with the new coronavirus. Simultaneously, Mizoram discovered 29 new cases on Friday to bring its confirmed infections beyond …
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A Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company has struck a deal with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to gain priority access to Covid-19 vaccines being developed by the world’s largest drug manufacturer. Pune-based Serum Institute, in partnership with AstraZeneca, the Gates Foundation, and the Gavi Vaccine Alliance, will produce 1 billion doses …
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A controversial magnet in Australia has asked Muslims not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease being developed by the University of Oxford. Sufyaan Khalifa claimed that the vaccine AstraZeneca is developing is ‘haram’, which means prohibited. Khalifa posted a video on his YouTube channel in which he criticized the …
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Written by Amitabh Sinha | Pune | Updated: August 29, 2020 9:25:28 am Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trials begin in Pune on Wednesday. (Express photo: Arul Horizon) The United States has entered into multi-million dollar deals with at least six major pharmaceutical companies to ensure the supply of a combination of 800 …
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The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, leaves a press conference organized by the United Nations Correspondents Association in Geneva (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the new coronavirus, at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 3. 2020. Fabrice Coffrini / Pool via …
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A US health official said on Friday that hundreds of thousands of doses of coronavirus vaccines have already been manufactured in the hope that at least one of the candidates will be successful in clinical trials. The Trump administration’s “Operation Warp Speed” program has struck deals for eight coronavirus vaccine …
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By: Desk Explained | Pune | Updated: August 29, 2020 8:10:16 am US President Donald Trump has promised to produce a vaccine for Covid-19 before the end of this year, “or it may even be earlier.” (AP Photo: Charles Krupa) Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker (COVID-19): The timeline for a new coronavirus …
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BEIJING: Sinovac Biotech’s coronavirus vaccine candidate, CoronaVac, was approved in July for emergency use as part of a program in China to vaccinate high-risk groups such as medical personnel, a person familiar with the matter said. China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a unit of state-owned pharmaceutical giant China National Pharmaceutical …
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