The weekly positivity rate was at 17.03%.India’s cumulative Covid-19 vaccination coverage was at 162.77 crore, with 93.17 crore first doses, 68.73 crore second doses and 83.62 lakh precautionary doses administered till Monday evening. India on Monday reported a spike in daily Covid-19 test case positivity rate to 20.75%. The country reported 3,06,064 new cases, taking … Read more
In the last 24 hours, 3,480 new COVID-19 cases were reported, taking the national tally to 1,201,367. (File) In a significant development strengthening the fight against Coronavirus pandemic, US pharma majors Pfizer Inc and Merck & Co Inc have developed antiviral pills against Coronavirus which have shown promising results during their preliminary trials. The efficacy … Read more
The simple storage requirement of the Valneva vaccine could come to use extensively in low-income and poor countries which often lack expensive and state of the art logistics chains. Even as a substantial population of the world has been vaccinated against Coronavirus, pharma companies and scientists are developing newer vaccines and the latest entrant is … Read more
However, Tamil Nadu has not received vaccines proportionate to its population size resulting in the current acute shortage of vaccines. Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention to correct the imbalance in the Covid-19 vaccine allocation for the state and to make a special allocation … Read more
In a significant development, indigenously developed Bharat Biotech’s Coronavirus vaccine Covaxin has been found to be 77.8 percent effective against symptomatic Coronavirus infections, the result of the third phase of clinical trials of the vaccine showed. While the efficacy rate of the vaccine remained 77.8 percent against symptomatic Covid-19 cases, the trial results found that … Read more
It also said that the calf serum is particularly beneficial in order to facilitate growth of a difficult to grow disease-causing virus or micro-organisms. In the wake of information circulating on the internet about the possible use of newborn calf in Covaxin, the central government has clarified that Covaxin vaccine does not contain the serum … Read more
This vaccine was scheduled for a September 2021 launch in India. The Indian government expects to get 20 crore doses of this vaccine from SII. US Vaccine maker Novavax on Monday said that its Covid dose demonstrated 90% overall efficacy and 100% protection against moderate and severe disease in Phase 3 trials. Novavax has a … Read more
Consequently, the Hyderabad-based pharma company had also released phase-3 interim clinical data that had shown vaccine efficacy rate of 78 percent in April this year. The third phase clinical data of Coronavirus vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech is going to be released in a week’s time, VK Paul who is the head of the … Read more
The Select City Walk drive through facility is also providing Covaxin vaccine at the price of Rs 1450 per dose. Amidst the Coronavirus vaccine shortage in the national capital, a private hospital in the city has rolled out the most expensive Coronavirus vaccine so far. The Moolchand Hospital in the city has started administering eligible … Read more
Half of India or 350 districts now have a positivity rate of less than 5%, indicating containment and testing had worked and the country was moving in the right direction. The country will be able to vaccinate more than a crore people per day by early to mid July and the entire country will be … Read more