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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 27, 2019. (REUTERS / Brendan Mcdermid) In a pre-recorded video statement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will promote greater transparency in the process of inclusion and exclusion …

“One million is a terrible number and we must reflect on that before we begin to consider a second million,” WHO emergency director Michael Ryan told a virtual press conference, when asked if it was unthinkable that two millions of people could die in the pandemic. before a vaccine arrives. …

Written by Amitabh Sinha, edited by Explained Desk | Pune | Updated: September 26, 2020 12:40:41 pm A Covid hospital built by Tata Group in Kasaragod in Kerala. It was handed over to the state government on September 10. Coronavirus cases in India: With more than 18,000 new cases detected …

A woman reacts when a healthcare worker tries to collect her swab sample to test for Covid-19, in Hyderabad on September 23, 2020 (AFP). The British magazine stressed that India has the fastest growing Covid-19 outbreak in the world in absolute numbers, adding that not relying on science despite a …

The first dose of the Covid-19 candidate vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca will be administered to three volunteers at King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) in Mumbai on Saturday, while 10 more volunteers have been selected for the clinical trial. Another Mumbai hospital, BYL Nair, will begin …

New Delhi: More than 85,000 new Covid cases were reported across India in the past 24 hours, government data showed on Saturday, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to more than 59 lakh. More than 1,000 deaths were also recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing …

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to deliver a virtual speech at the annual UN General Assembly on Saturday, official sources said. This year’s UN General Assembly is being held largely online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the world’s leaders are delivering prerecorded speeches at the …

Two weeks later, when a second pair of Covid-affected siblings, both in their 20s, also turned up in the Netherlands, geneticists were called in to investigate. What they discovered was a pathway that leads from severe cases, genetic variations, and gender differences to a loss of immune function that may …

Written by Prabha Raghavan | New Delhi | Updated: September 24, 2020 7:42:20 am Construction workers are screened for Covid 19 in the capital New Delhi. (Express Photography by Tashi Tobgyal) Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech announced Wednesday that it would manufacture up to 1 billion doses of a single-dose intranasal Covid-19 …

However, while some groups are falling ‘short’ on volunteers, others are not accepted into phase III trials. Oxford-AstraZeneca, which is one of the most promising candidate vaccines, is running phase III trials in India as ‘Covishield’. While the tests are receiving an active response from the public, recent reports have …