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By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: December 3, 2020 6:38:57 pm The Oxford vaccine for Covid-19 is AZD1222. Late last month, Oxford and AstraZeneca said their vaccine candidate for COVID-19, AZD1222, could be as effective as 90 percent when given as a half dose followed by a full …

The US multinational pharmaceutical company Pfizer has said it remains “committed to working with the Government of India to explore opportunities” to make the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the novel coronavirus available in the country. In a statement, a Pfizer spokesperson said: “We are currently in discussions with many governments around …

Amid the increase in coronavirus cases in the country, Dr. Randeep Guleria, director of AIIMS and member of the national working group on the management of Covid-19, has said that we now have vaccines, which are in their stage of final test in India. Dr. Randeep Guleria is hoping for …

The Center says India does not need to administer COVID-19 vaccine injections to the entire population. Rather, inoculating a “critical mass” in priority will help break the chain of transmission. If the previous presumption was that everyone would be released, what does this mean? Mint delves into What does the …

Written by Kaunain Sheriff M | New Delhi | Updated: December 3, 2020 7:00:03 am In order for the vaccine to be considered for use here, Pfizer’s Indian subsidiary will have to reach out to the regulator and share the data it has submitted to the UK regulator. (Photo: AP) …

The UK, which has an uneven track record in managing coronavirus disease, was the first country to decide to rely on herd immunity after all before realizing the folly of the approach, became the third country ( after China and Russia) and the first Westerner to approve a vaccine for …

Britain swiftly passed the United States and Europe on Wednesday when its regulator cleared the candidate Pfizer vaccine for emergency use. The vaccine will be launched early next week in Britain. The approval in record time has raised some suspicions and curiosities. Here is everything you need to know: 1. …

A WHO emergency use list would allow countries to authorize vaccines for national emergency use and could open the door to international supplies of the vaccine through global buyers, the WHO told Reuters. Referring to the British regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), he said in a …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered authorities to begin mass vaccinations with the Sputnik V vaccine against the new coronavirus starting next week, as the country recorded 589 new daily deaths from Covid-19. “We are going to agree on this: he will not inform me next week, but the …

Phase 3 clinical trials of Indian coronavirus vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech are conducted in partnership with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) lead medical body. Trials of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Covaxin, involving 26,000 participants at 22 sites across the country, began on November 16. It is the largest …