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AstraZeneca: Vaccine may work against UK variant

10:08 pm February 5, 2021

London: The developers of AstraZeneca‘s coronavirus vaccine say the shot appears to work against the variant detected in Britain late last year. It’s similar to previously reported results by other vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer and Moderna. Andrew Pollard of Oxford University, which helped develop the AstraZeneca vaccine, says the shot also appears to reduce the amount of virus in people infected with COVID-19. […]

UK vaccination drive expands as virus toll nears 100,000

12:02 am January 25, 2021

London: Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination programme that has seen more than 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday that three-quarters of the U.K.’s over-80s have received a vaccine shot. He said three-quarters of nursing home […]

EU agency approves Moderna”s COVID-19 vaccine

7:41 pm January 6, 2021

Amsterdam: The European Unions medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.s COVID-19 vaccine, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging across the continent. The approval recommendation by the European Medicines Agencys human medicines committee — which must be rubber stamped by the EUs executive […]

All Indian vaccines being developed for storage at 2-8 degree Celsius: DBT Secy

9:47 pm January 5, 2021

New Delhi: All Indian vaccines being developed against the coronavirus will have to be stored at 2-8 degrees Celsius as the logistics have been worked out while considering temperature as a factor, Department of Biotechnology Secretary Renu Swarup said on Tuesday. Swarup said Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin and Oxford AstraZeneca’s Covishield have robustly undergone immunoassay lab tests. “(For) all our […]

Delhi has less than a day’s stock of Covaxin for 45-plus age group: Atishi

Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute declare truce, pledge for smooth roll out of COVID-19 vaccines

9:23 pm January 5, 2021

Hyderabad : After their ugly public spat, Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech on Tuesday buried the hatchet and issued a joint statement saying they will work together to develop, manufacture and supply the COVID-19 vaccines in the country and globally. In the statement posted on their respective twitter accounts, the companies said Serum […]