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.
More than 60 per cent of the suits remain pending after two years of having been filed, and this proportion is agnostic to whether the suit is a commercial or ordinary suit.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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