Concerns about AstraZeneca’s timeline arose this week with UK saying only 4 million doses of the Oxford-Astra shot would be available by the end of the year.
An initial interruption in AstraZeneca's vaccine trial in UK may have created a break in timeline, but has had little impact on the overall trial, putting it ahead of competitors.
AstraZeneca drug will be assessed for ability to avoid infections for as much as a year in some people & as a pre-emptive medicine once patients are exposed to the virus in others.
Covid-19 vaccines under development are injectable. Scientists are hoping for better immune responses with inhaled ones that directly target the nose & mouth.
The phase 1 and 2 trials resumed after the Japanese regulator gave the go-ahead. Trials in the UK, Brazil, South Africa and India had already restarted in recent weeks.
Sinovac, one of three Chinese vaccines in the last stages of testing, is expecting interim data as soon as November from its Phase 3 trial of almost 10,000 people in Brazil.
Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.
The Centre is considering an increase in the National Company Law Tribunal's bench capacity, while the Standing Committee of Finance suggests fast-track courts.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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