The Serum Institute of India (SII) has joined five candidate vaccines to fight the deadly novel coronavirus, Adar Poonawalla said. Earlier this year, the Pune-based drugmaker signed an agreement with British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca to manufacture its experimental vaccine developed by the University of Oxford. The Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is currently …
Read More »‘The COVID-19 vaccine will be available in India in January if …’, says Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute
A safe and effective vaccine against the new coronavirus may be available in India by January 2021, says Adar Poonawalla, executive director (CEO) of the Serum Institute of India. The Pune-based drugmaker teamed up with major British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca to produce the coronavirus vaccine for low- and middle-income countries, developed …
Read More »Moderna and Pfizer aim to deliver vaccine by December
Written by Abhishek De, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 29, 2020 12:09:08 am A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample at a COVID-19 testing center in Hyderabad (AP) With the results of late-stage clinical trials by two Covid-19 vaccine pioneers, Moderna Inc and Pfizer, …
Read More »COVID-19 Vaccine May Be Available Before Christmas
A COVID-19 vaccine may be available to some people before Christmas, said Kate Bingham, chair of the UK government’s vaccine task force in an interview. However, a launch in early 2021 is more likely, he added. “The first phase III efficacy data for the main vaccine candidates should be available …
Read More »Center to acquire directly from companies; ‘priority group’ to get it first
The Center plans to procure COVID-19 vaccines directly from drug manufacturers and distribute them to priority groups under a special coronavirus immunization program, official sources said, according to the news agency. PTI. During the initial phase, front-line workers and groups most at risk of serious complications from COVID-19 will receive …
Read More »Why the storage and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines will be the next challenge
Written by Abhishek De, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 21, 2020 2:10:25 pm A health worker takes a swab sample for Covid-19 testing in New Delhi (Express photo by Praveen Khanna) We can have a Covid-19 vaccine for this year itself, with some eight candidates …
Read More »COVID-19 vaccine could be ready by December and be available in the market in March: SII official
India can receive a COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021, revealed Dr. Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Serum Institute of India. “India can receive COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021 as long as regulators notify processes quickly as various manufacturers are working on it,” Dr Jadhav said at the India Vaccine …
Read More »WHO in talks with Russia about its second EpiVacCorona vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it had had a very good dialogue with the developers of a second Russian candidate vaccine against COVID-19. “We can only have a position on a vaccine when we see the results of phase III clinical trials,” said WHO chief scientist …
Read More »Pfizer, Bharat Biotech, AstraZeneca: The Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Developments
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a review meeting on Thursday to assess the progress of research and the vaccine development ecosystem to combat the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The meeting was attended by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, NITI Aayog (Health) Fellow, Senior Scientific Advisor, senior scientists and other officials. PM …
Read More »Pfizer Aims for Emergency Approval Next Month, Says CEO in Open Letter
Pfizer Inc said Friday that it could request emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine as soon as a safety milestone is reached in November. The drugmaker should have enough data from its late-stage trial to know if its coronavirus vaccine works for this month, CEO Albert Bourla wrote in an …
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