The Union Ministry of Health launched an online portal on Covid-19 on Monday with the latest information on the coronavirus disease. The web portal will have data on the development of the research, clinical trials on a possible Covid-19 vaccine in India, its launch date and other information, said Health …
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The online portal available on the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) site will be a repository for all information related to vaccine development in India. You can access the website from here. “Everyone will be able to go online to that portal to find all the contemporary information related …
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A day after highlighting the challenges in India’s plan for the production and distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the local vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII), took to Twitter to praise the first. Minister Narendra Modi for his speech at the United Nations General Assembly …
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An employee answers questions from the public near samples of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by CNBG, a subsidiary of Sinopharm, during a trade fair in Beijing on September 6, 2020 (AP Photo / Ng Han Guan). The world still lacks a proven coronavirus vaccine, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese officials …
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The global death toll from Covid-19 could double to 2 million before a successful coronavirus vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, the World Health Organization said. “Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) … not only imaginable, but sadly …
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Adar Poonawalla, executive director of the Serum Institute of India which is conducting trials of Covid-19 vaccine candidates, raised questions on Saturday about the country’s plan to produce and distribute injections against the coronavirus disease. A phase III trial of the vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford and …
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“One million is a terrible number and we must reflect on that before we begin to consider a second million,” WHO emergency director Michael Ryan told a virtual press conference, when asked if it was unthinkable that two millions of people could die in the pandemic. before a vaccine arrives. …
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A single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response against the new coronavirus in an early to mid-stage clinical trial, according to interim results released Friday. The vaccine, called Ad26.COV2.S, was equally well tolerated at two different doses, the results showed. A single injection, …
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A woman reacts when a healthcare worker tries to collect her swab sample to test for Covid-19, in Hyderabad on September 23, 2020 (AFP). The British magazine stressed that India has the fastest growing Covid-19 outbreak in the world in absolute numbers, adding that not relying on science despite a …
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The first dose of the Covid-19 candidate vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca will be administered to three volunteers at King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) in Mumbai on Saturday, while 10 more volunteers have been selected for the clinical trial. Another Mumbai hospital, BYL Nair, will begin …
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