Imperial College London team says if WHO’s vaccine targets had been achieved, ‘1 in 5 of the estimated lives lost due to Covid in low-income nations could have been prevented’.
Corbevax co-developer Dr Peter Hotez says the vaccine will 'make up for lost time' in race to immunise millions and its patent was waived in the spirit of 'decolonisation'.
India granted emergency-use authorisation to two new Covid vaccines, Corbevax and Covovax, this week. Both use proteins of the coronavirus to induce an immune response.
PM Modi announced Saturday that booster doses would be rolled out from 10 January. Scientific studies have found that protection wanes after the 2nd dose, and recommended boosters.
First instalment of ZyCov-D, a three-dose Covid vaccine manufactured by Zydus Cadila, is expected next month. Vaccine doesn't require a needle injection to be administered.
Labour organisations say it isn’t govt’s money, but minister Shivaram Hebbar says ‘what’s wrong in wanting to ensure the health, life and livelihood of our labourers?’
US & China have backed the revised proposal by India and SA, but EU, Australia, Japan & others continue to oppose it and plan to prevent any formal negotiations on the matter.
Study by Indian doctors says that while Covaxin & Covishield are effective, the AstraZeneca vaccine shows ‘significantly higher’ seropositivity rate & anti-spike antibody titre.
While an open tender has been issued for procurement of the optical instruments, Bengaluru-based firm Tonbo Imaging, whose services the Army has previously used, is a frontrunner.
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.