WHO may soon approve Serum- Oxford Covid vaccine for global rollout under COVAX

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The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has already been given emergency approval in Britain The World Health Organization (WHO) is speeding up its regulatory approval mechanism for rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines to ‘poorer ‘countries. Several vaccine candidates from Western and Chinese manufacturers are in the fray. Reports suggest, ‘Covishield’ developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and manufactured by the Serum … Read more

Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine ‘encouraging’ for older age groups

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LONDON: The coronavirus vaccine developed by teams at the University of Oxford has been shown to trigger a robust immune response in healthy adults aged 56-69 and those over 70 years of age. The findings published in ‘Lancet’ on Thursday based on 560 healthy adult volunteers shows that the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine is “safe and … Read more

Coronavirus vaccine update: Trials of Sputnik V likely to resume in India, Pfizer says US could have vaccine by November

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US pharma giant Pfizer, which is developing a potential coronavirus vaccine with BioNTech, has said it could have the vaccine in November. Pfizer Inc has announced that it could apply for US authorisation of the vaccine by November. Meanwhile, the Russian coronavirus vaccine (Sputnik V) that suffered a setback in India, may again resume the … Read more

Russia approves 2nd Covid vaccine, EpiVacCorona, after Sputnik V; Putin says 3rd one coming soon

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Russia on Wednesday announced that it has granted regulatory approval to another Covid-19 vaccine named EpiVacCorona. This comes after the country granted similar approval to Sputnik V, making it the first Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the world to attain regulatory approval. “I have a nice piece of news. The Novosibirsk-based Vektor Centre has registered a … Read more

No big sell-off coming, US market may end year 3-5% up: Geoff Dennis

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People want to hold on to their gold positions as they see how the inflation story plays out, says the Emerging Markets Commentator. There are two very different cues. On the positive side, jobless claims have fallen below a million in the US and on the negative side, IEA has cut global oil demand for … Read more