The Serum Institute of India will apply for emergency clearance for the COVID-19 vaccine in the next two weeks, Executive Director Adar Poonawalla said on Saturday. The Pune-based pharmaceutical company has partnered with global pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to produce the COVID-19 vaccine for the University of Oxford for low- and …
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Coronavirus: Karnataka’s chief minister said that all schools will remain closed until the end of December. (Archive) Bangalore: The Karnataka government has decided to keep state and pre-university schools, or PU universities, equivalent to classes 11 and 12 closed, at least until the end of December in view of the …
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NEW DELHI: On Monday, the Supreme Court detained the governments of Gujarat and Delhi for the worsening of the coronavirus situation and asked all states to submit status reports within two days detailing the steps taken, the steps that are intended. take and the necessary help from the Center to …
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India recorded 44,059 fresh Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, recording a 2.5% drop in new cases recorded on Sunday. The new cases bring the total count to more than 9.13 million, including 511 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. The number of active cases remains well below …
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All of these states have reported an increase in the number of active cases. (File photo) New Delhi: High-level core teams have been dispatched to four more states, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, to help state governments address the rise of Covid. Last week, the Union Government sent …
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A health worker collects Covid-19 test samples at the Nizamuddin train station in New Delhi. Coronavirus India News Live Updates: With Gujarat witnessing an increase in Covid-19 cases, the government has decided to impose night curfew in Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot from Saturday. During the curfew, essential services such as …
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The Ministry of Health has approved a new category for the selection and nomination of ‘Wards of COVID Warriors’ candidates under the MBBS / BDS core group seats for the 2020-21 academic year. Five MBBS core group seats have been reserved for this category for the 2020-21 year, according to …
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A female passenger, dressed in a protective suit, waits for the train at the New Delhi train station (Express Photo: Amit Mehra) Kashmir seroprevalence survey: Kashmir’s first seroprevalence survey has revealed that close to 40 percent of people in the Valley have developed antibodies to Covid-19. The survey, which analyzed …
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India recorded a one-day increase of 45,576 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Thursday, after reporting fewer than 39,000 infections daily for the past three days, according to the Union’s ministry of health and family welfare. The country’s infection count has surpassed 8.95 million, while the death toll has …
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Coronavirus Vaccine in India: Bharat Biotech, together with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology (NIV), is developing the indigenous coronavirus vaccine Covaxin. Coronavirus vaccine in India: Phase 3 human trials of the indigenous experimental vaccine Covaxin, a candidate for the coronavirus vaccine, are …
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