The apex health research body said the National Institute of Virology has also demonstrated the neutralisation potential of Covaxin against the UK and Brazil variants.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan also said that the manufacture of remdesivir jabs, an anti-viral drug against Covid, will be doubled to 74.1 lakh per month by May.
Plan to increase Covaxin production being overseen by 6-member inter-ministerial panel appointed to augment vaccine manufacturing as Covid cases see a second wave in India.
Decision to allow Covaxin to exit the clinical trial mode means the vaccine can be administered with less stringent conditions and could result in a higher intake.
The recommendations were made after analysis of interim data of the phase-3 clinical trial of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin's showed the efficacy of the vaccine to be 80.6%.
An expert group of WHO may have advocated for the continued use of blinded placebo-controlled studies for ‘reliable evidence’, but scientific community thinks otherwise.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has backtracked on his retirement rules. The ‘75-year rule’ was applied selectively to sideline some leaders, but it doesn’t apply to the top brass.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.
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