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UK First To Clear Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine, To Be Available Next Week
Britain on Wednesday approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on independent advice of its medicines regulator. ....
India's Covid Tally Crosses 96 Lakh-mark With 36,652 New Cases, 512 Deaths In A Day
With 36,652 new Covid-19 infections and 512 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 96,08,211, while the toll touched 1,39,700, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. ....
Delhi Victorious Over Coronavirus, Says Satyendar Jain As Positivity Rate Dips To 3.6%
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday said that the national capital is emerging victorious in the war against coronavirus after it recorded 3.68 per cent positivity rate in the samples tested in the last 24 hours. ....
Over 60 Envoys Visit Bharat Biotech Facility In Hyderabad
Envoys of more than 60 countries on Wednesday visited a facility of Bharat Biotech which is developing Covaxin, India's first indigenous vaccine for coronavirus. ....
At 2.1%, Delhi Records Lowest Covid Positivity Rate So Far
At 2.15 per cent, Delhi on Monday reported the lowest positivity rate of new Covid-19 cases recorded so far. The positivity rate came out of 63,94 samples tested in the last 24 hours, wherein 1,376 turned out positive. Meanwhile, 2,854 patients recovered from the disease while 60 succumbed to it in the same duration. ....
Moderna Covid Vaccine Nears Approval, FDA Confirms Safety
As America begins a historic vaccination campaign, the US Food and Drug Administration posted a preliminary analysis confirming the safety and effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, bringing it ever closer to an emergency use authorisation. ....
US Reports Over 4 Lakh Coronavirus Cases In 24 Hours
In yet another grim development amid the raging coronavirus pandemic, the US reported an all-time number of single-day confirmed cases, according to health authorities. ....
Aurobindo Pharma & Covaxx To Develop Corona Vaccine For India, UNICEF
Aurobindo Pharma Limited and Covaxx, a US-based company, have entered into an Exclusive License Agreement to develop, commercialize and manufacture UB-612, the first Multitope Peptide-based vaccine to fight Covid-19, for India and the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) agency. ....
COVID: Zydus Cadila Vaccine Found Safe In Clinical Trials
Zydus Cadila announced on Thursday that its plasmid DNA vaccine to prevent COVID-19 - ZyCoV-D - was found to be safe, well tolerated and immunogenic in the phase I and II clinical trials. ....
Karnataka To Reopen Schools Partially From January 1
Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday gave his assent for the state sticking to the earlier decision to partially reopen schools from January 1, 2021 onwards. ....
