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Covid-19: India approves first 2 vaccines, UK to begin another immunisation drive

FILE PHOTO: A medic fills a syringe with COVAXIN, an Indian government-backed experimental COVID-19 vaccine, before administering it to a health worker during its trials, at the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society in Ahmedabad, India. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo

Updated on Jan 4, 2021, 9:23 AM IST

Where are we in the Covid-19 vaccine race?

ndia approval of a two-dose version of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, COVISHIELD, which has also been given the green light by Britain, Argentina and El Salvador, is a major win for a shot seen as crucial for mass immunisations.

Updated on Jan 3, 2021, 2:52 PM IST

WHO welcomes India’s decision giving emergency use approval to Covid-19 vaccines

Overall, Serum’s investment on Covishield is around $100 million.

Updated on Jan 3, 2021, 1:40 PM IST

The vaccine clearance brings hope to 2021

A nurse prepares a syringe with the Covid-19 vaccine, New York, US, December 23, 2020

Published on Jan 1, 2021, 8:08 PM IST

WHO grants ‘emergency validation’ to Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Balafia nursing home worker Sogues Sole, 51, receives an injection with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, as the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak continues, in Lleida, Spain, December 27, 2020. REUTERS/Albert Gea

Updated on Jan 1, 2021, 6:13 AM IST

Covid-19 pandemic: Timeline of what WHO did from January 9

The second Covid-19 summit by the WHO decided the treatments based on the different stages of the disease and also discussed criteria to further proceed with various vaccine candidates. Representational image.

Updated on Dec 30, 2020, 11:23 PM IST

Health group CEPI to help fund Indian drugmaker’s Covid-19 vaccine

A health worker gears up to take samples to test for COVID-19 inside a mobile testing van in New Delhi.

Updated on Dec 29, 2020, 5:13 PM IST

You may need vaccine passport for travel next year: All you need to know about it

As the name suggests, the mobile app, with proof that the user has been tested negative for coronavirus, will be their passport to concert venues, stadiums, movie theaters, offices, or even countries.

Updated on Dec 28, 2020, 10:52 AM IST

Indoor air pollution: Don’t brush it aside

Pollutants emitted by the incomplete combustion of solid fuels or kerosene for cooking, heating and lighting are associated with serious health risks

Published on Dec 26, 2020, 7:43 PM IST

Don’t squander sacrifices of 2020: WHO chief

FILE PHOTO: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) attends a session on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak response of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland.

Updated on Dec 26, 2020, 7:17 AM IST

Covid-19: Learning to beat a virus

Scientists, doctors, public health officials and pharmaceutical companies around the world have since embarked on a race against time, redirecting their collective focus and energies in a manner that has paralleled some of history’s greatest collaborative efforts such as the Manhattan Project or the Apollo programme.

Updated on Dec 24, 2020, 11:40 PM IST

US loses one life every 33 seconds to Covid-19 in deadliest week so far

Health officials are worried that a surge in infections from holiday gatherings could overwhelm hospitals, some of which are already at capacity after Thanksgiving celebrations.

Updated on Dec 23, 2020, 8:41 AM IST

Covid-19: Pfizer, Moderna testing vaccines on new strain

Lorries are seen parked on the M20 motorway, as EU countries impose a travel ban from the UK following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, near Ashford.

Updated on Dec 23, 2020, 5:56 AM IST

WHO calls meeting on new virus variant, European chief says

WHO Regional Director Hans Kluge said on Twitter that Limiting travel to contain spread is prudent until better info is available

Published on Dec 22, 2020, 4:32 PM IST

New coronavirus variant can be stopped using same preventive measures: WHO

World Health Organization's technical lead on the coronavirus pandemic, Maria van Kerkhove recommended people to strictly adhere to Covid-19 preventive measures amid the discovery of the new Covid-19 strain.

Updated on Dec 22, 2020, 10:46 AM IST

India reports lowest daily Covid-19 cases at 19,556 since July

A man walks past a makeshift Covid-19 testing booth at a market area in New Delhi in this file photo.

Updated on Dec 22, 2020, 10:04 AM IST

WHO says new Covid-19 strain not yet ‘out of control’

Medical workers wash their hands in a nursing home of Kaysesberg, eastern France.

Updated on Dec 22, 2020, 9:42 AM IST

In gratitude to the scientific community

A research scientist works inside a laboratory of Serum Institute, the world's largest maker of vaccines, May 18, 2020

Updated on Dec 21, 2020, 7:49 PM IST

The equitable and efficient deployment of vaccines

As and when vaccines are found to be safe and effective, countries will need to activate detailed plans to efficiently deploy the initial tranches of Covid-19 vaccines to cover up to 20% of the most vulnerable of their population, and to carry out coordinated and equitable deployments thereafter.

Updated on Dec 21, 2020, 7:42 PM IST

State govt extends hospital room price caps, private hospitals unhappy

The state government had capped the prices for oxygen beds and ICU beds for Covid-19 patients across all private hospitals in the state

Published on Dec 21, 2020, 5:25 PM IST

Alarm over new Covid-19 variant puts London in lockdown

A pedestrian walks past Red Telephone boxes in London on December 19, 2020.

Updated on Dec 20, 2020, 5:42 AM IST

Covid-19: WHO was warned lives were at risk over yanked report on Italy

The report was posted May 13 after it had received necessary approvals within the UN system.

Updated on Dec 19, 2020, 9:13 PM IST

Pompeo accuses CCP of blocking WHO investigation, spreading misinformation

The Secretary of State also called for other nations to demand transparency from Beijing regarding the origin of Covid-19, adding that if not done, China’s record of public health crises makes another future pandemic originating from the country ‘depressingly likely’.

Updated on Dec 19, 2020, 3:48 PM IST

South Africa identifies new coronavirus strain causing surge in cases

South African health authorities said the new variant seemed to spread faster than the previous iteration, but that it was too early to tell its severity and whether current vaccines would work against it.

Updated on Dec 19, 2020, 6:54 PM IST

Palestinians scramble for Covid-19 vaccines as Israel prepares rollout

Members of Palestinian security forces stop a car in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Published on Dec 18, 2020, 7:33 PM IST

Record 90k tests, Covid-19 positivity rate below 2% for the third day in Delhi

A health worker collects a swab sample to test for coronavirus infection, at UGC, ITO in New Delhi on Thursday.

Updated on Dec 18, 2020, 5:27 AM IST

Covid-19: Pregnant women missing from most clinical trials

A person receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

Updated on Dec 17, 2020, 4:44 PM IST

Covid-19 vaccines not silver bullet to end pandemic: WHO

Moreover, Kasai urged the young to “think of health workers who have been working day and night for almost a year. They are exhausted.”

Published on Dec 17, 2020, 2:00 PM IST

Beijing welcomes Covid-19 investigators trip to China, says WHO

On Wednesday, a WHO member and diplomats told Reuters the mission was expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the virus.

Published on Dec 17, 2020, 12:58 PM IST

Palestinians left waiting as Israel is set to deploy Covid vaccine

Israel’s vaccination campaign will include Jewish settlers living deep inside the West Bank, who are Israeli citizens, but not the territory’s 2.5 million Palestinians.

Published on Dec 17, 2020, 12:22 PM IST

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