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As the world struggles to find one vaccine for coronavirus, China has already started injecting its untested vaccine to state-owned company workers, government officials, vaccine company personnel, teachers, supermarkets employees and people who travel through risk areas abroad. The New York Times reported that officials are devising plans to inject …

Amid controversy and news of accelerated trials abroad, the latest report on Sputnik V suggests that the vaccine may meet its promised target and offers tolerable immunity after the first injection. Alexander Gintsburg, director of Moscow’s Gamaleya state research institute, which runs the trials, said that enough samples have been …

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 …

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 …

China is injecting thousands of people with injections of the Covid-19 vaccine, which are still in testing and therefore their efficacy is not proven, according to reports. Those who receive these vaccines must also sign a “nondisclosure agreement”, according to which they cannot speak to the media about it. The …

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 …

“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. …

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 …

NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech on Wednesday signed a licensing agreement with the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, USA, for a new intranasal single dose “chimpanzee adenovirus” vaccine for Covid-19. As Covid cases continue to show an increase around the world, several nations are working on vaccines that …

Vaccine maker Bharat Biotech has acquired the rights to distribute a single-dose intranasal vaccine for Covid-19, which is currently being tested. On Wednesday, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech International Limited announced a licensing agreement with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for the novel chimpanzee adenovirus. Under the agreement, …