NEW DELHI: No vaccine for respiratory diseases it is 100% effective and those that are 50-100% effective can be approved for use against the Covid-19 pandemic, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Dr. Balram Bhargava, CEO, said even when adding that maximum efficacy will be sought. “No vaccine for respiratory …
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NEW DELHI: Codagenix Inc said Tuesday that the Serum Institute of India has started manufacturing the potential Covid-19 vaccine from the American biotech company and expects to begin early-stage human testing of the vaccine by the end of 2020 in the UK. United. Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer …
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UNITED NATIONS: With the Covid-19 pandemic soon to reach the grim milestone of one million deaths, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday rebuked countries that are making “side agreements” to have vaccines exclusively for their own populations, saying such “vaccination”. it is “counterproductive”. “We are working to promote treatments and …
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The phase III human clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), began at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital here in Maharashtra, El Monday, a senior official said. . “We have started phase III trials of …
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NEW DELHI: India ranks first in the world in terms of total Covid-19 recoveries, with the country accounting for 19 percent of total global recoveries, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, for the first time in at least four months into the pandemic, weekly Covid-19 cases in India …
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The final phase of Oxford-Astrazeneca’s Covishield human clinical trial will begin at Sassoon General Hospital in Pune next week, after the Indian Controller General of Drugs gave the go-ahead to the Serum Institute of India (SII) to continue your essay. “The phase III trial of the ‘Covishield’ vaccine will begin …
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Deaths in India have been relatively low and it has a mortality rate of 1.62%. On Friday, the Health Ministry said 1,174 people died of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total deaths from the disease to 84,372. The new coronavirus has killed at least 946,727 people since …
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If advanced clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine are successful, an effective vaccine will likely be available by the end of the first quarter of 2021, State Health Minister Ashwini Choubey informed Lok Sabha on Friday. I was answering a question about when an effective Covid-19 vaccine is likely to …
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As Dr Reddy’s Laboratories prepares to receive 10 crore doses of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, nearly one in seven volunteers given the vaccine have reported side effects. TASS the country’s health minister quoted as saying. “About 14% have small complaints of weakness, muscle pain for 24 hours and an …
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WHO regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said a sudden spike in September “should serve as a wake-up call for all of us” after Europe set a new record last week, with some 54,000 cases recorded in 24 hours. “Although these numbers reflect more comprehensive tests, they also show alarming …
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