With effectiveness for first vaccines previously expected to be in range of 60% to 70%, more than 90% for Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is seen as extraordinary.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla said India will also help interested countries in enhancing their cold chain and storage capacities for the delivery of vaccines.
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.
The Union health minister's remarks came Wednesday as he reviewed Karnataka's Covid preparedness and expressed satisfaction over India's progress in combating the virus.
In conversation with Shekhar Gupta, Devi Sridhar, Professor & Chair of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University Medical School talks about why the Covid...
Rather than fixing US’ cumbersome vaccine approval and distribution system, the government might find it easier to encourage an allied nation to offer their product to visiting Americans.
In ThePrint’s Off The Cuff, Devi Sridhar says vaccines are not the ‘the fairytale ending’ to this pandemic, but it’s only a part of the strategy to fight the virus.
To clear a high statistical bar and prove effective enough to get emergency use authorisation, early vaccine candidates would have to be both very protective and quite lucky.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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