GENEVA: The World Health Organization’s top emergency expert, asked on Thursday about conflicting comments by President Donald Trump and US health officials on Covid-19, said it was important for all countries to have “consistent messages” for their audience. Trump on Wednesday objected to comments from US Centers for Disease Control …
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India’s Covid-19 count had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, and surpassed 40 lakh on September 5. The country has registered more than 95,000 cases for the third consecutive day. According to the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of …
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The University of Oxford, one of the leading Covid-19 vaccine developers in the world race, resumed its trial to test the drug it is developing with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Saturday. The restart to demonstrate the drug’s effectiveness comes two days after he had to stop the trial after a …
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Meanwhile, a multi-center study funded by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has found that the use of convalescent plasma therapy in coronavirus-infected patients does not help reduce mortality or progression to severe Covid-19. The ‘open parallel arm phase II multicenter randomized controlled trial’ (PLACID trial) was conducted in …
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Coronavirus LIVE Updates: US President Donald Trump has hinted that a Covid-19 vaccine could be available long before the November 3 election, even as his political rival Joe Biden was seeking more transparency on the matter. “This could have taken two or three years, and is instead going to be …
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WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward said at a briefing in Geneva that discussions are underway to make India part of the WHO global vaccine plan ‘Covax’. WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward said at a briefing in Geneva that discussions are underway to make India part of the WHO global vaccine …
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A health worker collects a swab sample from Kandivali residents in Mumbai on Saturday. (Photo by Pratik Chorge / HT) Covid-19 cases in India have crossed four million with the peak number of cases coming from Maharashtra (636,574), followed by Tamil Nadu (398,366), Andhra Pradesh (382,104) and Karnataka (283,298). As …
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries around the world to join forces to tackle the coronavirus on Friday, saying that “vaccine nationalism” would only delay the response to the pandemic. Tedros said 78 high-income countries had joined the global “COVAX” vaccine allocation plan, bringing the total to 170 …
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Drug makers made big promises of a quick turnaround on coronavirus vaccines. The moment of truth for the favorites will come this month. The first results showing whether a vaccine can prevent people from contracting the virus could come in mid-September from AstraZeneca Plc, according to Airfinity Ltd., an analytics …
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India once again registered more than 78,000 new cases of Covid-19 today, bringing the national count to 37,69,524, according to the Union Ministry of Health. The number of active cases reached 8.01.282 and hospital discharges stood at 29.01.908, a gap of 21.00.626. The death toll reached 66,333 after 1,045 people …
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