CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu is preparing to administer the Covid-19 vaccine starting in January and has started training 21,170 nurses as a first step. The state is preparing cold storage facilities at 27 government medical college hospitals, another 303 government hospitals and 2,286 primary health centers that will be used to …
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Night curfew in Pune on Tuesday. (Express photo by Ashish Kale) Just two weeks after the Pune-based Serum Institute of India’s Covid-19 vaccine emergency use authorization (EUA) committee reviewing the Pune-based Serum Institute of India sought additional safety and efficacy data at the stage Late, the firm has submitted new …
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The creator of the world’s first approved coronavirus vaccine has warned that he believes the deadly coronavirus can survive for several years. The lead scientist behind Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, Ugur Sahin, said “the virus will stay with us for the next 10 years.” See: US Nurse Faints After Receiving COVID-19 …
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Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has applied for the Emergency Use Authorization of its COVID-19 COVAXIN vaccine again with the Comptroller General of Drugs of India (DCGI), sources told News18 on Wednesday. COVAXIN, an inactivated candidate vaccine, is currently in phase III human clinical trials with 26,000 volunteers at 25 centers in …
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The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is confident that its coronavirus vaccine will work against the mutated strain detected in Britain. “Scientifically, it is very likely that the immune response of this vaccine can also cope with the new virus variant,” said Ugur Sahin, co-founder of BioNTech. However, “we do not …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 8:02:34 pm Passengers arriving from the UK at Mumbai airport on Tuesday (Express photo) The highly infectious new strain of coronavirus found in the UK, leading some 40 countries to sever travel ties with the country, has yet …
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Six passengers traveling on Air India’s London-Delhi flight tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival, a senior government official said on December 22. Read also: Coronavirus, December 22 updates The flight landed around 11.30pm on December 21. “Five COVID-positive passengers were found at the Delhi airport. A passenger, who took a …
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“It’s a nightmare,” said Suchitra Ella, Deputy Managing Director of Bharat Biotech International Ltd. “Sometimes I get goose bumps, sometimes I wake up early in the morning wondering where we are. What are we doing? How did we get there? there?” Bharat has already produced around 10 million doses of …
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A new strain of the coronavirus is spreading in the UK, putting the country back on track and overshadowing the early stages of the vaccine launch. While initial evidence suggests that the mutant virus is more infectious, scientists say it is unlikely to make vaccines less effective. What is the …
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NEWARK: US President-elect Joe Biden received his first injected dose of the Covid-19 vaccine live on television on Monday in an effort to increase confidence in its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year. Biden has said he would make fighting the coronavirus, which has killed more than 315,000 …
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