Pharma firms have asked govt for a forecast on Covid trajectory to meet demand since manufacturing remdesivir takes time, by which time a vaccine could become available.
Glenmark conducted phase 3 clinical trials of favipiravir on 150 mild to moderate Covid patients. Adverse events, or side effects, reported in 32 patients.
In an interview to ThePrint, Panjak R. Patel, chairman of Zydus Cadila, says company has already manufactured clinical batches of the vaccine candidate for phase 1 and 2 trials.
Complaint by MP to DCGI also highlights that the cost proposed by Glenmark is ‘definitely not in the interest of the poor, lower middle class and middle-class people of India’.
Oxford vaccine is under Phase II/III trials in multiple countries, where many have been given the vaccine & are being followed up with — a process that consumes time, but is standard.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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