Coronavirus

London: Vaccines can sometimes cause allergic reactions, but they are usually rare and short-lived. British regulators are looking into reports of allergic reactions in two people who received the new Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. It was the first day of a vaccination programme. In the...

New Delhi: An expert committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) sought Wednesday additional safety and efficacy data for COVID-19 vaccine candidates of Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech. This decision was taken after the expert committee deliberated upon their applications...

Nagpur: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde’s mother was allegedly duped to the tune of Rs 2.5 crore by the caretaker of a family property here, the police said Wednesday. The accused, Tapas Ghosh (49), was arrested Tuesday night. A Special Investigation Team...

Mumbai: Actor Sonu Sood has been named the number one Asian celebrity on the planet for 2020. Sonu Sood topped the ‘50 Asian Celebrities In The World’ list. The list is published by the UK-based ‘Eastern Eye’ newspaper. No doubt, Sonu’s charity work to help...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 442 COVID-19 patients have recovered from the disease and were released from their respective treatment facilities, the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department, government of Odisha said in tweets Wednesday. The new recoveries took the recovered number of cases in Odisha...

New Delhi: Global pharma major Pfizer has said it will have differential pricing on its COVID-19 vaccine for different countries, as the company aims to make the vaccine available across the world. The company's Indian arm has sought emergency use authorisation (EUA) for the Pfizer/BioNTech...

Mumbai: Despite having one of the largest universal immunization programmes (UIPs), lack of cold chain may prove to be one of the biggest challenges for India in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, a foreign brokerage said Wednesday. The cold chain market with 37 million tonne capacity is...

Bangalore: A certain section of people may be hesitant to take COVID-19 vaccine. However, biotechnology industry veteran Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, said on Wednesday she will get vaccinated though its durability is not known as of now. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the executive chairperson of Bangalore-headquartered biotech major...

New Delhi: India loves cricket and this has been proven yet again. The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been the top trending query overall in 2020. This is according to Google India’s ‘Year In Search 2020’ topic which was announced Wednesday. In spite of being...

New Delhi: Three Indian companies have applied for emergency use authorisation of their COVID-19 vaccine. They are Pfizer, Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), which is the National Regulatory Authority of India, will review the COVID-19...