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Covid-19 vaccine expected in early 2021, distribution plan in works: Harsh Vardhan

Union health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan speaks during the release of a compendium 'CSIR Technologies for Covid-19 Mitigation', in New Delhi.

Updated on Oct 13, 2020, 12:38 PM IST

Trump slams ‘China-dominated’ WHO, says ‘was right’ on not imposing lockdowns

US President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, US on Monday.

Updated on Oct 13, 2020, 9:06 AM IST

WHO expects to see Covid-19 vaccine by end of 2020 at earliest

Bottles with Russia's "Sputnik-V" vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) are seen before inoculation at a clinic in Tver, Russia on October 12, 2020.

Updated on Oct 13, 2020, 7:04 AM IST

Winter is coming for the world’s airlines

There were aspirations a while back that the three months through September might see enough of a recovery from coronavirus lockdowns to keep airlines’ heads above water.

Updated on Oct 10, 2020, 3:29 PM IST

WHO welcomes Moderna move not to enforce Covid-19 vaccine patents

The firm is one of the furthest along in the U.S. race for a vaccine seen as essential to ending the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than a million lives worldwide.

Published on Oct 9, 2020, 9:30 PM IST

Delhi records most new Covid cases in 5 days, but testing dips yet again

A health worker in PPE equipment cools off in front of a cooler fan at a clinic in Saket.

Updated on Oct 8, 2020, 4:55 AM IST

Covid-19 vaccine may be ready by year-end: WHO’s Tedros Adhanom

FILE PHOTO: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “ We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we may have a vaccine.”

Updated on Oct 6, 2020, 8:15 PM IST

China in talks with WHO over assessing its Covid-19 vaccines for global use

The WHO’s emergency use listing procedure allows unlicensed vaccines and treatments to be assessed to expedite their availability in public health emergencies.

Published on Oct 6, 2020, 2:15 PM IST

WHO calls for action against rising ‘pandemic fatigue’

The WHO’s Europe region, which encompasses 53 countries including Russia, has seen more than 6.2 million cases and nearly 241,000 deaths related to the virus, according to the organisation’s official statistics.

Published on Oct 6, 2020, 2:04 PM IST

India ranks 4th in global survey assessing public perception of govt response to Covid-19

Countries in Asia reported higher scores, unlike Latin American and European nations.

Updated on Oct 6, 2020, 2:08 PM IST

WHO says 10 per cent of world’s people may have been infected with coronavirus

People walk past an illustration of a virus outside a regional science centre, as the city and surrounding areas face local restrictions in an effort to avoid a local lockdown being forced upon the region, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Oldham, Britain.

Updated on Oct 5, 2020, 6:46 PM IST

Africa’s Covid-19 tally crosses 1.5 million, says WHO

As a whole, Africa’s epidemiological situation has so far fallen short of the dire predictions posited at the beginning of the pandemic.

Updated on Oct 5, 2020, 6:42 AM IST

Smoking rooms may raise risk of Covid-19 transmission, doctors say

Doctors suggest having open designated zones for smoking instead.

Published on Oct 2, 2020, 4:49 PM IST

Push to bring Covid-19 vaccines to the poor faces trouble

Covax was conceived as a way of giving countries access to coronavirus vaccines regardless of their wealth.

Updated on Oct 1, 2020, 9:59 PM IST

Boost in vaccine doses planned for poor as coronavirus rages on

Worldwide the virus has now infected almost 33.5 million people and killed over a million, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources.

Published on Sep 30, 2020, 6:16 AM IST

Covid-19: What you need to know today

India’s case fatality rate has always been much lower than that of many other countries.

Updated on Sep 30, 2020, 5:07 AM IST

UN must go back to its original mandate

The reality is that the original and uplifting vision, which underlay the establishment of the UN, has lost its focus.

Published on Sep 28, 2020, 7:55 PM IST

Covid-19: China gives ‘unproven’ vaccine to thousands, makes them sign ‘secrecy’ agreement

Little is known about China’s Covid-19 vaccination programme.

Updated on Sep 27, 2020, 11:52 AM IST

Covid-19 deaths near 1 million globally

A health worker collects a swab sample for coronavirus testing at Sukhdev Vihar in New Delhi on Saturday.

Updated on Sep 27, 2020, 7:25 AM IST

Covid-19: Lancet praises India’s early lockdown, pool testing and vaccine development initiatives

People are undermining the importance of social distancing as there is ‘false optimism’, Lancet noted.

Updated on Sep 26, 2020, 4:20 PM IST

China reports asymptomatic Covid-19 cases after 35 days

People visit a main shopping area following the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China on September 24, 2020.

Updated on Sep 26, 2020, 1:42 AM IST

Two million virus deaths ‘likely’ without collective action: WHO

A worker from "Hevra Kadisha," Israel's official Jewish burial society, prepares a body before a funeral procession at a special morgue for COVID-19 victims in the central Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv.

Updated on Sep 26, 2020, 12:04 AM IST

China aims to make 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses a year

An employee manually inspects syringes of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by SinoVac at its factory in Beijing on September 24.

Updated on Sep 25, 2020, 6:02 PM IST

200k Covid-19 deaths in US, but Trump says could’ve been 2.5 million

US President Donald Trump used a video address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to attack Beijing for not stopping the spread of what he called the “China virus”.

Updated on Sep 24, 2020, 6:48 AM IST

US passes 200,000 Covid-19 deaths as spread quickens worldwide

According to an AFP tally, worldwide more than 31 million people have been infected and nearly 962,000 have died from Covid-19 since the virus emerged in the eastern Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.

Updated on Sep 23, 2020, 11:37 AM IST

Covid-19: What you need to know today

WHO’s vaccine allocation plan, which has been public for some time, envisages distributing vaccine doses to cover 3% of the population of each of the participating countries and then scaling this up to 20%.

Updated on Sep 23, 2020, 4:28 AM IST

Should we cheer the fall in India’s Covid-19 cases?

In the past week, cases in India have seen an unprecedented drop for a country, which has seen a near-steady increase in infections.

Updated on Sep 23, 2020, 3:34 AM IST

Hold China accountable for unleashing Covid-19 plague onto world: Trump at UNGA

In this image made from UNTV video, United States President Donald Trump speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

Updated on Sep 22, 2020, 8:59 PM IST

Sign-up delays for global Covid-19 vaccine plan are procedural: WHO

The Geneva-based body has said that 156 nations have joined the so-called COVAX plan to deliver some 2 billion vaccine doses globally by the end of next year but big countries such as China, Russia and the United States are missing.

Updated on Sep 22, 2020, 8:38 PM IST

World sees record weekly number of Covid-19 cases, deaths down: WHO

A man wearing a protective mask pulls a cart past a mural supporting frontline workers as the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak continues in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 8, 2020.

Updated on Sep 22, 2020, 8:19 PM IST

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