Coronavirus

Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech has already got emergency use authorisation of Covaxin from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI). Now Bharat Biotech has said Phase-1 clinical trials of its new intranasal antidote for the killer virus will begin during February-March this year. Besides Covaxin, the...

Tehran (Iran): Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has banned Iran from importing of American Pfizer-BioNTech and Britain’s Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines. This decision is a reflection of mistrust toward the West. In a televised speech Friday, the leader said the import of American and British COVID-19...

New Delhi: The number of people who have tested positive for the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 has climbed to 82 in India, the Health Ministry said Friday. The number of such people stood at 73 till January 6, it added. “The total number of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Friday registered 245 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,31,396. Out of the 245 new cases, 141   were reported from quarantine centres while 104 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1347412758980030465 The total number of active cases in the...

Washington: New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa. Those variants are causing global concern. They both share a common mutation called ‘N501Y’, a slight alteration...

New Delhi: With 18,139 new coronavirus infections and 234 deaths in the last 24 hours, India’s overall tally stood at 1,04,13,417, while the death toll touched 1,50,570, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said Friday. India continued its streak of low daily new cases....

Sydney: A new three-day lockdown in Brisbane has put Cricket Australia (CA) in a spot of bother. Brisbane is the venue of the fourth and final Test against India from January 15. Cricket Australia is making desperate efforts to have the game in the Queensland...

Washington: The US registered its highest deaths yet from the coronavirus on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. Coronavirus is surging in virtually every state....

How quickly do I need a second COVID-19 vaccine shot? The first COVID-19 vaccines in the US require two doses a few weeks apart. People should get some degree of protection within two weeks of the first shot, with the second shot bringing about the...

Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech has completed enrollment of 25,800 volunteers for the Phase-3 trials of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin. This information was given by Suchitra Ella, joint MD of Bharat Biotech International Ltd here Thursday. In a message posted on the company’s Twitter account, Ella thanked...