Coronavirus

New Delhi: India's first indigenous mRNA vaccine candidate has received approval from the Drug Controller General of India to initiate Phase I/II human clinical trial, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said Friday. The novel mRNA vaccine candidate, HGCO19 has been developed by Gennova, a company...

Mumbai: Veteran Bollywood star Neetu Kapoor has tested negative for COVID-19, her daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahni said Friday. Taking to Instagram, Sahni posted a picture with Neetu Kapoor. She also expressed gratitude to all those who prayed for the good health of her mother. “Thank you...

Melbourne: Australia stopped Friday the further development of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. This decision was taken as several participants in the early-stage trials generated antibodies for HIV. The antibodies were generated after they received the potential therapeutic. There were no serious adverse events or safety...

New York: US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris have been named by the prestigious TIME magazine as ‘2020 Person of the Year’. The two have been chosen for changing the American story. They have showed that the forces of empathy are greater than...

New Delhi: India recorded less than 30,000 fresh COVID-19 infections Friday, the second time this month. However, the new COVID-19 infections pushed its caseload to 97.96 lakh. Meanwhile the total number of recoveries increased to 92.90 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The...

Washington: A US government advisory panel has recommended emergency approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The advisory panel has underlined that the shot’s potential benefits outweigh its risks. After an eight-hour public hearing Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products...

Mumbai: Nearly half of Indian millennials surveyed by a foreign bank have reported an increase in borrowing in August-September amid COVID-19 pandemic. The survey by British lender Standard Chartered also said that the millennials – defined as those born after 1981 – are finding it...

Berlin:  German company BioNTech and US pharmaceutical company Pfizer say data on their coronavirus vaccine were “unlawfully accessed” during a cyberattack on the servers of the European Medicines Agency. The Amsterdam-based agency, which is considering requests for conditional marketing authorisation for several coronavirus vaccines to...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 458 COVID-19 patients were cured of the disease and discharged from their respective treatment facilities Thursday, the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department, Government of Odisha said in a series of tweets Thursday. The total number of recovered cases in Odisha...

New Delhi: Indian scientists have identified drugs and possible cocktails that can target vital proteins of the novel coronavirus. This new development may potentially help treat COVID-19. The researchers have identified a variety of as yet unexplored drugs to attack SARS-CoV-2, even as it mutates....