The government said Tuesday that it has not talked about vaccinating the entire population of the country against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), as India has reported 9,462,809 infections and 137,621 related deaths so far. “I just want to make this clear that the government has never talked about vaccinating the …
Read More »AstraZeneca Faces More Vaccine Questions After Manufacturing Error
AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, among the pioneers in the quest to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine, face growing questions about their trial results after acknowledging a manufacturing error. While an announcement Monday from Astra and Oxford showed their shot was 70% effective on average in a late-stage study, …
Read More »China’s Covid Vaccine Appears Safe, Causes Immune Response
Results from an early-phase randomized clinical trial of Chinese vaccine candidate Covid-19 CoronaVac show that the formulation appears safe and induces an antibody response in volunteers aged 18 to 59 years. The results, published in The Lancet, add to the number of candidate vaccines tested that have been found safe. …
Read More »Covid-19 Vaccine: Center May Not Get Pfizer Vaccines At All
The Center will deliberate whether to obtain the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19, which requires a temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius. And the storage requirement isn’t the only hurdle that worries the Covid-19 task force. The amount in which they will be available would not be enough for the Indian …
Read More »Frontline workers to have priority; photo ID required
From identifying the priority groups that will receive the COVID-19 vaccine first to organizing vaccination centers, the central government has begun to prepare a plan to implement the coronavirus vaccine in the country, once it is available. The coronavirus vaccine will be distributed under a special COVID-19 inoculation program, using …
Read More »The COVID-19 vaccine can be ready by December. Safety Trials: A Look at the Vaccine Journey in India
The whole world is waiting with great anticipation for a ‘safe and effective’ vaccine against the new coronavirus. The central government expects a COVID-19 vaccine to be ready for sale in India from December if clinical trials are successful, according to mint report. Currently, three candidate vaccines are in different …
Read More »Covid-19 vaccine: Serum Institute will begin the final phase of the trial next week
The final phase of Oxford-Astrazeneca’s Covishield human clinical trial will begin at Sassoon General Hospital in Pune next week, after the Indian Controller General of Drugs gave the go-ahead to the Serum Institute of India (SII) to continue your essay. “The phase III trial of the ‘Covishield’ vaccine will begin …
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