The company said it would seek emergency use listing from the World Health Organisation for an accelerated pathway to make the vaccine available in low-income countries and “immediately prepare&...

Leaders of the 20 biggest economies on Sunday vowed to spare no effort to supply Covid-19 drugs, tests and vaccines affordably and fairly to “all people”, reflecting worries that the pande...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will join a videoconference meeting on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold with the chief ministers of several states to discuss infrastructure needed fo...

The Centre is exploring modalities of providing emergency authorisation and license to use Covid-19 vaccines pending phase III clinical trials and regular licensure. In a recent meeting attended by N...

Haryana health minister Anil Vij on Friday was administered a trial dose of indigenously made potential coronavirus vaccine, Covaxin, at Ambala, as he became the first volunteer in the state to receiv...

Medical researchers have documented for the first time in India fewer new cases of the coronavirus disease in urban areas with large proportions of previously infected people, a sign of emerging popul...

AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s potential Covid-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response in older adults, data published on Thursday showed, with researchers expecting to release late-st...

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Global drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech on Wednesday said they have concluded phase 3 study of their mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate with 95 per cent efficacy rate, adding that they...

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