A vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus is scheduled to be registered on August 12 in Russia. This would be the first official approval of inoculation against COVID-19 in the world, reports RT News. Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Oleg Gridnev made the disclosure, saying medical practitioners and …
Read More »Chinese Coronavirus vaccine to be used on Bangladeshi health workers: Secy
A Covid-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Research and Development Co Ltd, a Chinese company, will be approved for use on Bangladeshi health workers after getting its satisfactory results, Health Services Division Secretary Abdul Mannan said on Tuesday. Sinovac has filed an ‘appeal’ through icddr,b for conducting phase-3 clinical trial of …
Read More »Sanofi, GSK reach virus vaccine deals with US, EU
Pharma giants Sanofi and GSK will receive up to $2.1 billion from the US government for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, the companies said Friday, as the world scrambles for an answer to the pandemic. At the same time, the European Union said it had reached a deal with …
Read More »US signs $2 billion vaccine deal with Pfizer and BioNTech
The United States on Tuesday signed a $1.95 billion agreement with US pharma giant Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech for 100 million doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine, part of an aggressive push to start immunizing Americans early next year. It is the biggest deal to date under Operation Warp Speed, …
Read More »Bangladesh calls for affordable access to coronavirus vaccines
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Rabab Fatima has highlighted the need for making the Covid-19 vaccines available, affordable, and distributing those equitably to all countries that need those most. “A fair equity principle is needed to ensure this,” she said adding that developments in regard to various vaccine …
Read More »Russia may be first to finish coronavirus vaccine trials: expert
The final, phase 3, trials of a Russian vaccine against coronavirus developed by the Gamalei National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology may be completed quicker than in other countries, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, told the Vesti news program on Rossiya-1television on Thursday. “This …
Read More »Promising results in coronavirus vaccine trials
Encouraging early results from clinical trials have raised hopes for an effective coronavirus vaccine. Studies in the US and UK suggest several experimental vaccines produce a good immune response in volunteers without serious side-effects. Nearly two dozen coronavirus vaccines are in clinical trials while another 140 are in early development. …
Read More »Vaccination levels falling during pandemic: UN
The number of children worldwide getting life-saving vaccinations has declined this year largely because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization and UNICEF warned on Wednesday. The first four months of 2020 saw a “substantial drop” in the completion of the three-dose jab that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and …
Read More »Human trial of Indian Covid-19 vaccine in July
Volunteers in India will be immunized with a new locally-made coronavirus vaccine in July. An unspecified number of people will have the vaccine, as part of a trial by Hyderabad-based firm Bharat Biotech. Tests in animals suggest the vaccine is safe and triggers an effective immune response. The trials are …
Read More »Chinese COVID-19 vaccine approved for military use
CanSino Biologics company of China on Monday announced that a Covid-19 vaccine they have developed is safe and somewhat efficient. The vaccine candidate was developed jointly by CanSino and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology in the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, reports NDTV. The military of China received the green …
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