NEW DELHI: The government will launch the Covid-19 vaccine next week, and Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said this would happen within 10 days after the emergency use authorization being granted. The Indian regulator granted the EUA on January 3. This is the first time the government has officially spoken of …
Read More »Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin Phase 3 Trial Begins at AIIMS Delhi
New Delhi: The phase three human clinical trial of Covaxin, a candidate for the indigenously developed coronavirus vaccine, began at AIIMS here Thursday with Dr. MV Padma Srivastava, head of the main institute’s Neuroscience Center, and three others. volunteers who received the first dose. ‘Covaxin’ is being developed by Bharat …
Read More »Plasma therapy may be removed from Covid Ministry of Health treatment guidelines
Coronavirus – The world’s largest trial of plasma therapy was conducted in India in 39 hospitals. (Proceedings) New Delhi: Convalescent plasma therapy may be removed from the national guideline on coronavirus treatment, the head of India’s main medical research body ICMR, Dr. Balram Bhargava, said today at a Health Ministry …
Read More »India’s Covid-19 Count Nears 5.9 Million; 86,052 new cases registered in the last 24 hours
India recorded 86,052 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total count to close to 5.9 million. Active cases have risen to 9,70,116, while more than 4.75 million have been recovered so far. During the last six days, the number of recoveries recorded per day in the …
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