China has approved three COVID-19 vaccine candidates for clinical trials. (Figurative) Beijing: China has approved its first nasal spray vaccine for trials to combat the new coronavirus that has claimed more than 904,000 lives and infected more than 27 million people worldwide, official media reported. China’s only nasal spray vaccine …
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A staff member places a Sinovac Biotech Ltd coronavirus vaccine candidate on its booth for display during the 2020 China International Trade in Services Fair (CIFTIS), following the COVID-19 outbreak, in Beijing, China, on September 5, 2020. REUTERS / Tingshu Wang UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged countries to find …
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India has been consistently reporting around 1,000 deaths from coronavirus disease (Covid-19) a day since early September and the cumulative number of deaths in the country due to the viral infection surpassed the 75,000 mark on Wednesday. According to data from the HT panel, 75,055 Covid-19 patients have died as …
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CALCUTTA: Newly appointed West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Thursday that his party is ready to forge an electoral alliance with the CPI-led Left Front in the state to fight a “spirited battle. “against the TMC and the BJP in the 2021 Assembly elections. Chowdhury, who is …
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A day after the Serum Institute of India (SII) received a demonstration cause notice from the Controller General of Drugs of India (DCGI), it said it was pausing trials of the Covid-19 vaccine in the country. IBS is manufacturing the Covishield vaccine at the University of Oxford in collaboration with …
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Members of the Bhartiya Kisan Union blocked National Highway 44 near Kurukshetra in Haryana despite the presence of a heavy police force, deployed to thwart the protest rally proposed by farmers and commission agents at the grain market of Pipli in the district. The police used light force to disperse …
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MUMBAI / LONDON: The Serum Institute of India has suspended trials of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate until the British drugmaker restarts trials, Serum said on Thursday. “We are reviewing the situation and stopping the trials in India,” Serum said in a short statement. AstraZeneca said Tuesday that it had halted …
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The Serum Institute of India said it will halt the Phrase 3 trials that were due to start in India next week. New Delhi: The Serum Institute of India, which is manufacturing the Covishield coronavirus vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford in conjunction with major pharmaceutical company AstraZenca, …
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Two inmates from a Pune temporary jail, believed to be Covid-19 positive, escaped the facility in the early hours of Thursday. One of them is a defendant in an attempted murder case. The two were identified as Anil Vitthal Vetal, a resident of Ganesh Nagar in Bhima Koregaon, Shirur and …
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Amid a record rise in daily coronavirus cases in India, the Union Ministry of Health has urged all Union states and territories to mandatorily retest all negative symptomatic rapid antigen test coronavirus cases through the RT-PCR test. The notice comes as India today posted a single-day record peak of nearly …
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