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MUMBAI: Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech’s potential Covid-19 vaccine reported a serious adverse event during clinical trials in August, even as the Phase 3 stage of the study has now started. The adverse event occurred in a 35-year-old participant with no comorbidities, who was part of the Phase 1 trials in August, …

Pfizer Inc applied to US health regulators on Friday for emergency use authorization (EUA) of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first application of its kind in an important step to provide protection against the novel coronavirus. The application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes just days after Pfizer …

MUMBAI: Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech’s potential Covid-19 vaccine reported a serious adverse event during clinical trials in August, even as the Phase 3 stage of the study has now started. The adverse event occurred in a 35-year-old participant with no comorbidities, who was part of the Phase 1 trials in August, …

Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, tested positive for coronavirus. Washington: The eldest son of US President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is in quarantine without symptoms, the latest in a long line of infections among those with ties to the White House. …

The world hopes that scientists will be saved from the global pandemic, as a new wave of infections forces New York to close schools and California to implement night curfews. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said its vaccine committee would meet on December 10 to discuss the application …

Thousands of devotees gathered to offer morning prayers to the rising sun on the last day of Chhath Puja on Saturday. Most people across the country adhered to the traditional practice of offering prayers on the banks of the river on the final day of the four-day Puja, violating the …

Trials of different Covid-19 vaccine candidates continue as people around the world contract the coronavirus disease, which has also claimed millions of lives. With many countries, especially in Europe, experiencing a second wave of the pandemic, the need for a Covid-19 vaccine is being felt more and more. Click here …

Latest news on coronavirus: Even as the Union Home Office has issued unlocking guidelines, several states decided on Friday to impose a night curfew or Section 144 in certain cities to control coronavirus cases. The move was taken as these states witnessed an increase in covid cases shortly after Diwali …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting on Friday to review India’s vaccination strategy in which issues such as prioritization of population groups and the technological platform for the deployment of the vaccine for the coronavirus were discussed. Modi tweeted that the meeting discussed important topics related to the progress …

Rarely have the worlds of science, public health, economics, and the global balance of power intersected as they did in the days of Covid-19. And rarely has it relied so heavily on a single variable: developing a vaccine, or a set of vaccines, to provide immunity to all people around …