ZURICH / FRANKFURT: Drug makers, including BioNTech and Moderna, are scrambling to test their COVID-19 vaccines against the new, fast-spreading variant of the virus sweeping Britain, the latest challenge in the fast-paced race to curb the pandemic. . Ugur Sahin, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, which with its partner Pfizer …
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India’s first mRNA vaccine candidate, developed by Pune-based Gennova in collaboration with US HDT Bio, received approval for human trials to determine if it is safe and produces a protective immune response against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The Indian drug regulator’s Subject Matter Expert Committee recommended that the candidate vaccine, …
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By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: December 3, 2020 9:30:06 pm On Wednesday, the UK became the first country to approve the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 with the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granting a temporary authorization for its emergency use. (PTI) Leading global …
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NEW DELHI: India’s research and manufacturing will be critical to fighting Covid-19, especially to making vaccines on a large scale, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said Monday. Addressing the 2020 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, Gates delved into difficulties in vaccine development and Covid-19 diagnosis. The American business mogul called India “very …
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