Covid-19 vaccine: Bharat Biotech to finish screening of volunteers for trials by July-end

Covid-19 vaccine: Bharat Biotech to finish screening of volunteers for trials by July-end

New Delhi: Bharat Biotech will wrap up the screening of volunteers for the first phase of human clinical trials for its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin by the end of July and select 375 of them to begin dosing by early August. The company developed Covaxin in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of … Read more

US accuses Chinese hackers of targeting firms developing coronavirus vaccine research

US accuses Chinese hackers of targeting firms developing coronavirus vaccine research

WASHINGTON: Hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies across the world, the Justice Department said Tuesday as it announced criminal charges. The indictment does not accuse the two Chinese defendants of actually obtaining … Read more

Long Road Ahead: Vaccinating India will take at least two years, say Doctors

Long Road Ahead: Vaccinating India will take at least two years, say Doctors

As per doctors, India will have to live with the virus in the “same way we have lived with diseases like tuberculosis”. Synopsis“We need to vaccinate 60-70% of population to get herd immunity. If we get access to a vaccine by December, it would take two years to vaccinate 60% of population,” Dr Sandeep Budhiraja … Read more

India’s covid-19 tally crosses 7 lakh-mark; over 1 crore tests conducted

India’s covid-19 tally crosses 7 lakh-mark; over 1 crore tests conducted

NEW DELHI: With another big single-day jump in coronavirus cases, India’s COVID-19 tally crossed the seven lakh-mark on Monday, just four days after the number of infections in the country had reached six lakh. The total number of tests for detection of COVID-19 also crossed the one-crore mark in India on Monday. According to Union … Read more