A ‘safe and effective’ vaccine against the new coronavirus could soon become a reality. India has already started the registration process to distribute the vaccine as soon as it is available. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation launched an online portal for vaccination registration on Saturday, news agency PTI reported. The coronavirus vaccine …
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COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be a reality soon. Several candidates in the global coronavirus vaccine race have come a little closer to regulatory approval in recent weeks. “The coronavirus vaccine will be available in the coming months and it is estimated that between 400 and 500 million doses will …
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A ‘safe and effective’ coronavirus vaccine will be available to the general public in the country next May or June, said Adar Poonawalla, executive director of the Serum Institute of India at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2020. The Pune-based drug maker has signed an agreement with British-Swedish company AstraZeneca …
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Sputnik V, Russia’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, is 92% effective in protecting people from coronavirus, based on the results of the interim trial, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Wednesday. Interim results are based on data from the first 16,000 trial participants who received both injections of the two-dose …
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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 …
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The Serum Institute of India (SII) has joined five candidate vaccines to fight the deadly novel coronavirus, Adar Poonawalla said. Earlier this year, the Pune-based drugmaker signed an agreement with British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca to manufacture its experimental vaccine developed by the University of Oxford. The Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is currently …
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The Center plans to procure COVID-19 vaccines directly from drug manufacturers and distribute them to priority groups under a special coronavirus immunization program, official sources said, according to the news agency. PTI. During the initial phase, front-line workers and groups most at risk of serious complications from COVID-19 will receive …
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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 …
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India can receive a COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021, revealed Dr. Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Serum Institute of India. “India can receive COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021 as long as regulators notify processes quickly as various manufacturers are working on it,” Dr Jadhav said at the India Vaccine …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it had had a very good dialogue with the developers of a second Russian candidate vaccine against COVID-19. “We can only have a position on a vaccine when we see the results of phase III clinical trials,” said WHO chief scientist …
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