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UK to begin first Covid-19 human challenge trials, could infect 90 volunteers initially

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A laboratory technician collects vials of patient swabs during coronavirus detection testing at a laboratory

UK inches closer to infect healthy people with Covid to help vaccine research

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A magnified coronavirus germ is displayed on a monitor during coronavirus patient sample detection tests in the virology research labs at UZ Leuven university hospital in Leuven, Belgium | Bloomberg Photo

Can inhaled vaccines provide better protection against coronavirus? Scientists look for answer

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Representational image | China Photos/Getty Images

UK is considering first-ever vaccine trials that expose people to coronavirus

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A sign featuring the AstraZeneca Plc logo stands at the company's DaVinci building at the Melbourn Science Park in Cambridge, U.K., on Monday, June 8, 2020 | Jason Alden/Bloomberg

AstraZeneca denies vaccine trial volunteer had rare nerve ailment

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A medical worker draws liquid from a vial with a syringe | Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg

AstraZeneca trial illness likely not linked to Covid vaccine, Oxford says

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Representational image| A magnified coronavirus illustration in a lab inside the Pasteur Institute | Adrienne Surprenant/Bloomberg

Drugs that fight diabetes and obesity may also treat Covid, Novo Nordisk says

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Representative image | Miguel Á. Padriñán | Pexels

Why some countries don’t want to wait for Covid vaccines from superpowers

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Representational image of a vaccine | Pixabay

Russia’s Sputnik launch raises risks in the rush for Covid vaccine

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Lab technicians produce Covid-19 diagnostic kits in a laboratory in Faridabad

In the race to securing Covid vaccine supplies, rich countries are first in line

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On Camera

Opinion

Plastic pollution in water bodies

Banning glitter is not going to save the oceans

Adam Minter -
Humans release 1.5 million tons of primary microplastics into the ocean annually, a sum equivalent to one disgorged plastic bag for every person each week.
File photo | A Himalayan black bear | Wikimedia Commons

Himalayan bears sleeping less and Sarus cranes not nesting in monsoon only. That’s bad news

You can still socialise with friends during Covid, just plot to kill them online

Economy

Karnataka High Court stops Franklin Templeton debt funds closure without investor consent

Kartik Goyal -
Franklin Templeton shut six of its fixed-income and credit-risk funds run in India in April, locking in Rs 308 billion of investor monies following a liquidity crisis.

Defence

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at Sukna Military Camp in Darjeeling district on Saturday | ANI

India wants to end border row with China, but will not cede an inch of land, says Rajnath Singh

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The defence minister was speaking after performing 'Shastra Puja' at the Sukna-based headquarters of the Indian Army's 33 Corps in Darjeeling on the occasion of Dussehra.

National Interest

Illustration: Soham Sen/ThePrint

Trump or Biden? Doesn’t matter to India-US ties as they’re in a full, strategic embrace

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Pompeo & Esper’s visit to India for the 2+2 talks is proof that old hypocrisies are history, and supreme national interest has again driven a strategic choice.
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