Beijing: China has granted conditional approval to the country’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine developed by state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, an official announcement said on Thursday. The approval comes a day after Sinopharm said its vaccine showed 79.34 per cent efficacy and a 99.52 per cent antibody-positive conversion rate in the interim results of the Phase III clinical trials. ”The inactivated […]
Read MoreTokyo: World shares edged higher on Wednesday as some markets wrapped up trading for 2020, anticipating a dose of fresh support for the U.S. economy and efforts to speed up coronavirus vaccinations to help curb the pandemic. Shares rose in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Tokyo’s benchmark fell back after surging to a 30-year […]
Read MoreHong Kong: Asian shares were mixed Wednesday after a lackluster day on Wall Street, as the boost from President Donald Trumps signing of the coronavirus relief package faded. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo and Sydney but rallied in Hong Kong, Seoul and Shanghai. The S&P 500 lost 0.2 per cent on Tuesday, a day after major indexes notched their latest […]
Read MoreHong Kong: A first batch of vaccines developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac has arrived in Turkey, after a two-week delay. A plane carrying 3 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine landed in the capital Ankara early on Wednesday. The first shipment was initially scheduled to arrive on December 11 but Turkish officials said problems […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Passenger flights between the UK and India would remain suspended till January 7 and they will resume in a ”strictly regulated” manner thereafter, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday The Civil Aviation Ministry had last week suspended all flights between the European country and India from December 23 to December 31 as a mutated variant […]
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